Interestingly, Nietzsche's famous last rational action was interposing himself between a horse and its owner, who was beating it.

I'm a little leery of the whole idea that the powerful have a different set of moral standards applied to them (as opposed to their having a different morality, which seems psychologically likely). Praising the great and powerful no matter what they do while still condemning Leopold and Loeb as monsters is a very convenient stance to take.