I often wonder if we've been conditioned to view things as "black and white" or "good vs evil" at an almost compulsory level. We like things to be nice and neat- we like to think that the "bad guys" are just that, and ONLY that- bad, and they need to be stopped. They don't have any interests besides being "bad". They don't have families they're fighting for, they don't have political reasons for fighting, they don't have a vision of a *good future* for themselves and their kind- no, they're just monsters and need to be killed, and only when they are all killed or surrender does "good" triumph. You can see this in action with the Ukraine/Russian conflict. Personally, I view the Ukrainian government as being more despicable than the Russians- but the Russians' hands aren't clean, and to deny that would be silly. But the average NPC will literally say "Russia invaded for no raison!", and are completely oblivious to what journalists have been calling a "genocide" perpetrated against the civilians in eastern Ukraine for almost two decades now. They think that Russia just decided "Okay we want the Ukraine now, we'll be taking it and killing anybody who opposes". It's so much more complicated than that... but don't try telling them that. Hilariously, they'll call you a Nazi. Don't even bother reminding them of who Russia's greatest enemy in open conflict has been in the last 100 years, that'll *definitely* push you into "Nazi-hood".