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Old 11-09-2017, 08:49 AM   #600
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I've always been more onside with the concept that Mao and Stalin were better comparisons to Dukat then Hitler.

Dukat believed he was doing good for the occupied people, that he was several degrees less brutal and more gentle then his government wanted him to be, he had a sympathetic hero complex, and because he was influential and powerful nobody said to him. "Dude your still starving and killing and allowing the rape of millions, so yeah your evil".

Stalin believed that his 5 year plans were ultimately good for his people and while he killed countless hundreds of thousands executing them, he firmly believed that things could be worse.

When Mao was purging intellectuals and teachers, he did it with the belief that he was doing gods work in reforming his society and that things could be worse.

Dukat simply believed that the evil that he was doing could have been far worse, and that as a side benefit he was advancing a primitive religious society and that they were better off, and if they would stop fighting and forcing him to kill more and more that he would be there Sheppard.


Like Stalin and like Mao and like Hitler he was a malignant narcissist, he didn't have Stalin's crippling paranoia though, he believed that he was untouchable because he held back from doing worse and the people would eventually recognize that.

What shattered his illusion was being beaten by Sisco and having his daughter die, and then Sisco basically confronting him with the truth, that he benefited nobody but himself, and that in doing that all his acts were essentially evil. Dukat kept saying "I'm not an evil man, I did what I had to do in moderation instead of full blown". But when Sisco broke through that facade, at his heart of hearts he knew, and his natural reaction was to exaggerate his hidden nature. The old "You want to be bad, then I can be bad". Then he grabbed his crotch, shattered the window of Sisco's shuttle while yelling "Hoooo" then moon walked right into evil to the point where he was willing to sacrifice his being and his soul to destroy the Bajorans
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