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I don\\\'t really see how these two snowclones of UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans make sense. That phrase means \\\"What I\\\'m doing may be evil, but it\\\'s morally \\\'\\\'\\\'justified\\\'\\\'\\\' because I\\\'m building a better world.\\\" DespotismJustifiesTheMeans and DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans are not offering moral \\\"justifications\\\" at all: the former is just \\\"[[MightMakesRight I don\\\'t care what\\\'s moral, I\\\'m seizing power because I can]]\\\", the latter is \\\"I want to make the world a worse place; any evil I do in the pursuit of that is of course a step in the right direction.\\\"