<i>I'm not finding counts of deaths, nor listings of atrocities, for these.</i><p>Argument from ignorance. They were in the same league from the point of view of their victims.<p><i>But if you believed that doing so was somehow right (again, the "greatest good" nonsense or something), then it's OK?</i><p>I never said that. From available evidence, not one of the people you mentioned did their atrocities for the ``greatest good'', and it would not matter if that was the case, because the willingness to commit atrocities is the monstrous thing.