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So Chuunin Exam Day, then? I've never read it, but I've heard of it.
Considering that I was able to identify the author and possibly the exact fic from the information that the morality was being heavily lambasted, may I suggest that readers noticing nonlampshaded evil doesn't actually happen all that often? TV Tropes is good at noticing Moral Dissonance, but literally nowhere else that I've ever heard of. It took a critic on the order of David Brin to point out that Aragorn wasn't democratically elected.
Unfortunately half the examples of Unfortunate Implications on TV Tropes are places where the work's universe has rules that create problems for currently popular systems of ethics (the implication being it's wrong to imply such rules might be true). Or otherwise violating prevailing moral fashions.
I think people just think of it not being evil to be a dictator as part of the fantasy setting. I'd be more moved by an example in an everyday setting.
Have you read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio_of_a_Space_Tyrant ?
Nope, sorry!
Wah, but... how can people not see that Tyrant Hope Hubris becomes evil?
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Anyways, if you can stand Piers Anthony it is an OK read.
Yah agreed. It definitely plays with the theme... which is kinda fun.
I was mainly saying it's an example not in the fantasy setting ;)
It's more along the lines of "If I were king, what would I do... and how would I become king anyways?"