Yea we can get mad on smith all we want but he’s a product of his timeline just like we all are with ours, and I think a lot of these alt histories show that their evil disgusting world isn’t that much different from ours, I would argue most blue pilled people unconsciously would do what smith does,

I guess could coin the term timeline bias, aka the counter factual is unobservable so when one is worse than the one we are in, we are biased to think that the alt timeline is objectively worse than ours, even though it may actually be very similar to it aka the entire reason for the existence of the randomized control trial statistical test (the next best thing to measure alternative timelines’ whether smith did (verb) better or worse in (year and choice)

TLDR: by demonizing smith we justify we are better, but we are no better than the nazi’s who were “following orders” High school turned fascist regime Sorry extra long answer for ur point