It's important that he lives by a code

https://startrek.website/post/2086733

It's important that he lives by a code - Star Trek: Website

Okay but what if you took out like a whole group of killers with a bus. That has to be a net negative right?
Then each of their relatives or families becomes vengeful and likely homicidal. You have to do it right and end their entire bloodlines. Even the innocent ones. Anakin style. Lessons from Queen of Fables. Totally not the evil thing to do. The empire did nothing wrong.