What do you despise about his goals, exactly? His methods are really bad, yes, an extremist at it's worst, but the though of having a balanced world is not bad in my view. Also, I felt the same way about Xemnas when KH2 came out and we thought their goals involved only having hearts for themselves.
Who says that the world
needs to be "balanced"? Only the mass-suffering causing madman who wants to play god and control every living being, no one else. (And some fans who I slowly get the vibe are only rabid darkness-fanboys).
What I despise about Xehanort's "supposed" noble goals is that he unduly claims to want to do things he hasn't the right to do.
From what we saw so far in the series, there isn't the supposed "tyranny of light" at all since except for the worlds dotted around the RoL there seems to be an abundance of darkness rather than light.
For Xemnas I also never felt the slightest sympathy or the rest of the Organisation except Axel, Xion and Roxas.
They were messing up countless worlds, creating Heartless and holding prisoner millions of human hearts.
If you had any understanding of Xehanort's character, you know the possibilities of your hypothetical interaction with him would be.
1. Being ingored by him.
2. Being killed by him.
3. Being used by him.
His character archetype is that of a sociopath madman, not someone to be admired in the slightest.
Full agreement.
The way I understand it, Xehanorts goals are as followed:
1. Forge the complete X-Blade
2. Upon the forging of the X-Blade the complete true KH is returned to the realm of light.
3. Use the X-Blade to unlock KH thus uniting the worlds into one world again.
4. The worlds united once more, most likely some will get greedy and want the light of KH for themselves again, thus sparking a new Keyblade War.
5. At the end of the second Keyblade War the world will be consumed in darkness just like the first time thus replacing the current order of light with one of darkness.
6. With the old order destroyed, Xehanort will merge with KH and thus will have the power to create a brand new world order made in his image (I'm assuming by turning everyone in the universe into a Xehanort) and according to his vision (A world where light and dark are balanced).
7. Rule this new world as a god.
Yeah, exactly. Someone who wants to bring about an apocalypse and destroy everything that is not to his/her ideals is depraved and crazy to the core.
We had several of such "enlightened" persons in real life too who wanted to change the world to their liking and they also caused nothing but destruction.
Examples I can think of immediately are Genghis Khan, Attila the hun, Mao Zedong (Cultural revolution), Joseph Stalin (Paradise of the workers), Benito Mussolini (new roman empire) or Adolf Hitler (the "master-race").
To
force your ideals on others is plain and simply wrong, there is nothing to admire about that.
The point i'm making is that Xehanort is an extremist and yes his methods are certainly, but the desire to have the power to remake the world how we want, is something I'm sure everyone has wanted at some point in their. The chance to remake the world into our idea of a perfect paradise, is something everyone has thought about.
Everytime someone says they wish the world could be this way, or people could be this way or that way, or I wish something wouldn't happen. Those are deep desires we have to change the world to how we think it should be.
The difference between us and Xehanort, is that Xehanort knows how to make the world how he wants it and has a plan to make it happen. He's living out what all of us at one time has surely desired to do, to find a way to change the world to how we want it to be. And i'm not going to lie, if I was in Xehanort's position I would also try to make the world/universe how I wanted it to be. Though I would never use the methods Xehanort has used to achieve his goal.
The only thing I can imagine myself doing that Xehanort did to achieve my goals, is trying to find a way to remain in the world of the living for as long as it takes to achieve my goals. Though unlike Xehanort I would find someone who would willingly let me take over their body, and once I had reached KH I would hand control of their body back to them and reward them with being second in command in my new world.
I would be cautious with such generalizations. Not every human being is a power hungry madman who wants to play god because human beings who have a bit of dignity and common sense know that you do not follow some "deep desire", which Xehanort completely lacks.
And that plan involves mass murder on an universe-wide scale and complete destruction. I completely fail to understand how that can actually be admired. It's disgusting and repelling no matter from which angle I look at it.
Xehanort does nothing for "the greater good" but everything for his own selfish desires.
The main difference between (most) of us and Xehanort is that we have some regard to the life of others and do not want to play god.
I don't even know how to properly respond to the last paragraph, as I fear I would use some inappropriate language.
Yet here's the thing with that MM, he's acting out on selfish wills. He's not making the world better, he's only doing what he wants. He wants to play God and to hell with who or whatever gets in his way. What he is is Satan in human flesh. Also if someone where to do what he did, I would call you the scum of the earth for forgetting your fellow men and woman, for your own selfish gain. I can't wait for Sora to take his goals and cause them to fall to the ground crashing on him for all the people he's harmed.
Without going too much in the religious analogies, the main gist of this is correct.
Xehanort relishes in dominating, hurting and controlling others, and solely for that he's already despiseable.
Xehanort is a selfish individual who thinks that because the world is not the way he envisioned it and because of his sociopathic curiosity he will do anything and everything to achieve this goal. Changing the world into your own image, no matter how "good" you think it is, is wrong. Imposing your will over others is wrong. Wishing war and devastation, separation and annihilation, is wrong. Xehanort is wrong.
Relix said:
Knowledge obtained just to benefit one's self without the consideration and safety of others (who have clearly showed their disdain, concern, and horror of your goal) can't possibly be morally justified. I don't care how rational Xehanort may think he is or how understandable his goals may be. He may not be insane but he is far from just or moral
Couldn't agree more, exactly my point as well in both instances!!!
Whatever else happens, I NEED to see Xehanort rely on someone else for help and at some point realize if only for a moment that Sora's heart is more powerful than anything he could forge without it.