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Presumably that's the first thing dark lords (and their real-life equivalents) convince themselves of, that there is no inherent good and evil. Once that part is over with, anything you do can be classified as good.
Can't speak to any fictional dark lords, but the real-life equivalent seems more prone to deciding that there is an evil, which is true evil, and which is manifest upon the world in the person of those guys over there.
At least, that's what the rhetoric pretty consistently says. Either a given dark-lordish individual is a very good liar or actually believes it, and knowing what we do about ideology and the prevalence of sociopathy I'm inclined to default to the latter.
(I wouldn't say that Oscar Wilde and others with his interaction style particularly resemble dark lords, though.)