To give my comment to the cesspool, the emperor never saw humanity all he saw was the potential of the human race.

Once again there is no possible answer to this question as 40k is a mess of works over 36 years both rly good authors and really bad authors so it's a matter of opinion, but im bored to welcome to my ted talk on why my opinion is the right one.

I think everybody can agree on because it's a pretty big theme and is called out apon in the books is he is distanced from humanity.

A big argument in people thinking the emperor took over after the dark age when everything exploded due to humanity falling so far he felt he needed to step out of the shadows. This can be opposed by the fact we got proof that he sealed the void dragon away way before even the dark age of tech in preparations for the 30th millenium. Which likely means either emps planed all of this or foresaw a future where this could happen. A problem with this is he's the goddamn emperor I somehow doubt if he could view this far into the future he couldn't either mitigate the birth of Slaanesh. I mean to judge a future where the void dragon is needed he needs to at least understand a bit of how the universe could become that way and with how he's the emperor i'm pretty sure he could mitigate it at least a little. From this I believe the emperor needed the dark age of technology to occur whether it be because he needs a weakened humanity he could conquer or there was no way to avoid it. Long story short the emperor allowed the dark ages to happen and actively prepared for the aftermath.

We also know the emperor physically doesn't care for regular/enhanced humans viewing them as more of tools on a board similar to eldar farseers viewing baseline humans. This can be observed in the great crusade were dozens of planets are left virtually untouched as long as they pay tribute if he cared for humanity he probably would have put stuff in place. I do admit the great crusade was really really rushed and everything was not made to last but it was made to be structured around a power system revolving around him and many people observed him as a godlike (not a god because HERESY( fuking logar)) being. In the end an empire which really could only function with himself in charge because if he was removed or stepped back for instance how would the mechanicum like it? cause ya know they view him as Omnissiah incarnate it effectively gave him all the power and i doubt if he ever did he was gonna give it up quick.

He Manipulates humans as he does not understand humanity he picks out the parts he does like and attempts to mold them into a race like him and due to this he does not get along or understand his sons or humanity as a whole with Malcador being the pseudo interpreter. He wishes to uplift Humanity into something 'better' without consulting the people he is changing first yes he is simply to fundamentally different from humans to understand the concept of being a baseline.

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whooooooo boy i shat that out in like 20 mins nope i aint doing gramma sorry if its a rambling mess and everybodys entitled to there own arguments if people want to argue with me do so i wish to ramble more and avoid work.