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Sorry if this is half incoherent, it's almost 4am.

To be fair, assuming we're talking about non-despair Komaeda, I don't think he necessarily actually likes people being sacrificed for hope? Or at minimum actions that don't directly bring about hope like those taken by Despairs, even if hope could arise from the victim(s) overcoming them*. In the NWP he was really negative about Tsumiki and didn't consider siding with her like he did other murderers. We also saw him have a limit on what he would let an Ultimate do to others in the prologue; he threatened to stop Teruteru with force if he continued to be predatory to Sonia even though that could deprive her of opportunities to assert herself and grow from it.

It's hard for me to pin down his exact views on this, though, since he's trapped in a zero-sum situation where- until late chapter 4- outside of himself only Ultimates' lives are being wasted. I need to go over his lines again for a post but it's implied more than once that he didn't like Togami dying at all even if he justified the death as a sacrifice for hope at the time. I just don't know how he'd handle the same happening to a non-Ultimate.

*Notably I think that he did fully believe this as Servant, becoming willing to become despair itself if it would bring about more hope in the end. But when he isn't a despair I kind of get the impression he claims he believes that to cope- to himself and others- but may not fully, truly adhere to it? He shows hypocrisy/cognitive dissonance around his other beliefs anyway: still caring about Hinata once he knows he's Reserve Course, casting himself in a passive support role but actually being really proactive and clearly wanting to be important, desiring love and trying to socialise with the group even though he's probably not supposed to 'deserve' that, etc. That's just a tentative personal view that could evolve with more scrutiny of his lines, though.

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