lol, your counterpoint is hold to hold up Gandhi as the paragon of “Good?”
People are the aggregate of their choices. Behavior dictates the outward expression of inner motives. Sure, there are vast gulfs of grey within the theoretical discussion of black and white, but ultimately each person’s legacy is simply a accumulation of the paths they have chosen, given the available options. To assume that everyone would make the same choices, when presented with the same opportunities, is simply not congruent to the patterns of human behavior that we see in reality, regardless of era or culture.
Your core argument is essentially just a rationalization of your own behavior.
So my original analysis holds true: a remarkably bad hot take.