Uhh, hmm OK I think you may have been right about my misunderstanding, I think we got disjointed when I said "factually correct and thus justified", I carried o

Uhh, hmm OK I think you may have been right about my misunderstanding, I think we got disjointed when I said "factually correct and thus justified", I carried on remembering the justified part. Yes he would have been factually right, he did in fact create the utopia, regardless of whether he was justified. On the topic of justified however, yes I consider this a question of consequentialism versus deontology, an attempt to justify the means by the ends is consequentialist and I squarely reject it. People engaging in consequentialist reasoning on the topic itself does not justify the consequentialist reasoning.