Thread:Patrick.vtap/@comment-26767096-20160922132947/@comment-27097330-20161001113742

The Indomitable wrote: Aramirtheranger wrote: The thing I dislike about that series is how it basically says "Never be a good person. The only way to succeed is to be unbelievably cruel and have no morals.". When you consider the fact that Vlad the Impaler, successfully kept his people free, due to his extreme brutality towards the Turks, and the fact that many Romanians still believe he is a hero...

Or, the fact that numerous bloody, brutal men ended up leaving more order after their conquests, than before it...

I'd say it's sometimes as good as a (subjectively) 'good person.' Diocletian for example. The kind of order he imposed may have been, rigid, but it also saved the empire for just a bit longer.