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The Imperium is pretty awful in 40k, but they do have their motivations to these actions which are brutally sensible. They kill psykers/heretics because they can create daemons and lead to billions of deaths. They kill mutants because they are trying to direct the evolutionary future of mankind in order to strengthen it. They kill xenos because xenos want to kill them, and it will ultimately lead to a stronger universe for mankind.

The Tau are the most "good" of all the races though. Yes, they'll kill those who don't join them, but they do allow anyone to join them freely and would unite the galaxy if they could.

Andilus Greatsword wrote:The Tau are the most "good" of all the races though. Yes, they'll kill those who don't join them, but they do allow anyone to join them freely and would unite the galaxy if they could.

The Tau are more "naive" than "good." They're still brutal in eliminating perceived threats, they just don't recognize all the threats, and consistently pay for it. Like the whole "accepting the 'charity' of a haemonculi coven, which cost them the entire population of a world, consigned to the most hilarious heinous torture" or "recognizing necrons as their saviors, then getting cut down by them" things.