Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-13821374-20141105162812/@comment-362960-20141105170119

Legitimately the desire for peace is juxtaposed against human nature and what they find is possible and of course their own egos. Madara had fully embraced the might makes right style of the Sengoku Era that preceded the villages. His younger brother Izuna didn't trust the Senju at all, and when he got killed, Madara became unable to trust either. Early on it was remarked that a treaty is little more than a peace of paper, so the ability trust in your former opponents was limited at best. Madara with his eyes had access to the secrets of Mugen Tsukiyomi, which isn't a plan about peace, but power as edited by Black Zetsu. So even if Madara wanted peace, that's not what he was working for. But the Moon's Eye Plan was perfect for Madara. He gets to use his power, to impose his will, to create a perfect world all by himself. There's also the fact that that was Indra's, who he carried with him, attitude towards the world. One great person accomplishes one great goal. Madara just couldn't see the flaws in it because he didn't care about anyone else or their opinion. To quote Megatron, "Peace through Tyranny."

Obito was brainwashed and manipulated by Madara on every possible level. But because he was lacking all of Madara's original motivations, his own motivations of being a great Hokage who could bring peace to the world were mixed in, so that Obito became a true believer in Madara's flawed goal. The loss of Rin destroyed his moral center and he went into ends justify the means mode. It doesn't matter if he kills most of the people since everyone will be restored in the Mugen Tsukiyomi anyway.

Nagato came by the world peace thing honestly, simply because his parents were humanitarians and his country was simply crushed repeatedly in the never ending wars of the era. He came from no power so him wanting peace made perfect sense. When his dream was crushed he went from an idealist type to a realist type. I actually liked his plan much better. It still wouldn't have worked, but it's much more rational than Mugen Tsukiyomi.

Kaguya was stated to have gone power mad and went from being a benevolent leader who brought peace to an absolute despot who ruled through terror of her incomparable power.

Sasuke is also the type like Madara who isn't able to trust in other people or their judgment. He also isn't able to see the world clearly as it is. What he had in common with Madara and Obito is that the constant hard work and tenacity diplomatic path to peace doesn't work for him. He wants the panacea, the sure thing. He doesn't want to leave it up to chance, I guess because they feel like they would've wasted their time if they get a hundred years of peace and then something happens then there's more peace after it.

Orochimaru by contrast to all of them, didn't care about peace at all. He is actually very comfortable with war. Orochimaru just wanted knowledge. The only stated goal Orochimaru ever expressed was that he wanted to recreate Rikudo Sennin's power and attain his understanding of chakra and the universe. He wanted to be enlightened. His villain-hood stems from his absolutely amoral and reprehensible methods of getting there. Crushing Konoha was a side project for getting revenge on Konoha for rejecting him, and Sarutobi personally, the true goal of course was to influence Sasuke to come to him because he needed his Uchiha genes to recreate Hagoromo's power.