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I was talking about our instincts about what's moral. These are reflected in both our attitude towards real people and the kind of stories we tend to enjoy.
Speak for yourself! I don't have a positive attitude towards real-world soldiers and actually find war movies kinda boring. (And if that ‘stories we tend to enjoy’ heuristic makes sense, what does the success of the Hannibal Lecter franchise tell us?)
(OK, as far as you could tell I might be lying or self-deluded, but in principle you could test this by administering me an IAT for soldiers vs hippies or something.)
Something rather disturbing, although, to be fair, he is the villain.
He also does have quite a few redeeming qualities. If he were just an average Joe who eats people, I doubt the franchise would have gotten far.
Unfortunately, his redeeming qualities tended to be of the incorruptibly evil variety, i.e., normally good qualities that made him more effective at his evil goals.