It'd be trite to mention all the sci-fi and political thrillers that have an objectively correct villain who's only a villian because they "go too far."
spoiler
The Expanse does this really bad and I think the author knows it, seeing as he has to ass-pull some way in which the "moderate" anti-colonial forces end up winning anyway.
Also the fantasy trope of having different species at conflict in a story being a stand-in for modern race relations. Besides completely ignoring the material causes behind racism, it also carries the implication that different races are fundamentally, irreconcilably different both psychologically and biologically. It squicks me out enough that as a rule I only run human-only campaigns at my table.
It'd be trite to mention all the sci-fi and political thrillers that have an objectively correct villain who's only a villian because they "go too far."
spoiler
The Expanse does this really bad and I think the author knows it, seeing as he has to ass-pull some way in which the "moderate" anti-colonial forces end up winning anyway.
Also the fantasy trope of having different species at conflict in a story being a stand-in for modern race relations. Besides completely ignoring the material causes behind racism, it also carries the implication that different races are fundamentally, irreconcilably different both psychologically and biologically. It squicks me out enough that as a rule I only run human-only campaigns at my table.