The best comparison I can make at the top of my head is suicide in some religions, particularly in some Christian and Sikh sects where the mere act of suicide is a sin that is worthy of sending you to hell. So in a way you can say 'Villain' just means 'Consequentialist with anger issues'. Your willingness to destroy a spirit can be best represented, in-universe, as a willingness to dispose of ethics to achieve a good outcome.
So DESPITE you having a pretty good argument for why Kemm's a big ol dirtbag and doesn't deserve any better because he is a villain, and you can argue that you are morally justified in ending his existence permanently, the GAME says that if you do that you are a Villain. You can even argue that the God King has a pretty good justification for his actions, if you just remove the taint of the Void from him he would probably be one of the most sympathetic causes in the game. So basically the Magisters are "Villainous" but also "Good". And I think you have to be a pretty fucking hardcore Utilitarian to say that genocide justifies prematurely ending a war by condemning the enemy to hell (the Void). Presuming you agree with them and go along with their plan the ending cinematic also affirms that yes, this was really an okay thing to do. For what the game presents as morally "good" reasons. The Magisters, while trying their best to recreate the 'Evil' version of the Fourth Reich according to the game both Lucian and Dallis not only condone it they encourage it. More so, it's not like there are a lot of witnesses down in the secret chamber to report my "villainous" ways. I've gone out of my way to avoid using it and only on a few servants of the God King, and played at a handicap by missing out on lots of source use for rarely making use of source vampirism all for what? To be considered a villain when I barely used it even on bad guys? Why? He was a servant of the God King, torturing a man in his hidden basement. When I consumed Lord Kemm's essence I became a villain. Didn't perform any mercy killings either. I've not betrayed people or killed innocents. I also did it on Wendigo because she begged me to, to keep the God King from taking her.
Just on a few bodies of undead enemies, the animated statues in Lord Kemm's vault, to weaken Karon in combat(sewer), on the spirit of The Sallow Man, and on the spirits trapping Arhu. I've been focusing on quite the opposite.
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