Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3297904-20150315141751/@comment-24187218-20150319130359

Honestly, not a single "villain" in the canon can be considered a villain. they all just fought for what they taught was right, no matter how twisted it was. tragic experiences can change a person and eventually develop the extremes the "villains" did, face it, it happens in real all the time.

Orochimaru: Perfection, he wanted to something like mixing blue and yellow and creating green, i suspect he wanted to guide humanity to immortality without having to sacrifice others(no one ever lose people close to them, no one would be able to kill each other, rendering war pointless = peace) in his mind, killing thousands to save the rest is right. might be wrong here but if he was he would have been right.

Obito/Madara: Perfect illusion world(technically it would be perfect, id support them)

Nagato/Konan: Peace by Absolute fear(works as well, think about the cold war)

Kaguya/Black zetsu: First by fear, secondly by illusion world, lastly by taking all chakra before it progressed too far(this one is speculation, it could have been just jealousy :P)

Villages: to protect themselves means to hurt another, i'd say "if somoene dared to hurt people i cared about, i would gain power to stop them. even if it hurted them" i suspect that was going on, happens in real as well

Sasuke: Revenge by grief, grief can cause one to completely lose themselves, can you truly blame one who is lost. not really.

greed causes people to go into extremes just like how most of the other "villains" did(kakuzu) i'd say the villains like kakuzu were most evil but even he did what he believed was right.

in my opinion the "villain's" who went into the highest extremens were the ones who truly were good ^_^. if not it would mean itachi was evil as well, i mean he did kill his own clan after all, all to protect peace, his desire.

i might have missed a few... ahh akatsuki: same as nagato really.