User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 453: A Father's Job, Review and Commentary/@comment-26287497-20150920142614/@comment-31.132.65.53-20150921143141

Sorry but if Zeref mind is so messed up then he should not rule in the first place. Instead he called the Spriggan to tell them he wants to destroy humanity and they are like - ok let's role with it. August being the only one to see that something is not right here.

My point is that Zeref is the very least person to issue any kind of judgements or penalties over others. As most of the misery in Ishgar happened be coming from him. Because if you roll out: all the crazy cults devoted to him, marauding demons programed to kill and with a sense of superiority over humans, inventions like The Eclipse Gate that causes more harm than good, and a warmongering nation. It turns out Fiore is a relatively peaceful place. As mentioned above Zeref mentors gave him many chances and warnings to cease his research. He didn't listen and it brought opon him this contradiction curse.

I don't see how he was giving humanity any chances for improvement. And I don't understand how someone who has so many years at his disposal, power over so many people, acces to the resources and logistics of a whole state, instead of trying to make the world a better place deliberately brings the exact opposite and then dares to speak how horrible mankind is. Call me old fashioned but I believe indifference and people that causes a crime indirectly are just as bad as the perpetrators. So many unhappiness could have been avoided if Zeref cared about the consequences of his actions. Like when he created demons to kill him but they couldn't do it so they began to kill humans. Also, if Zeref could just revert them to their book forms like he did with Mard why didn't he do it and take them somewhere else. Instead he let them roam free and latter used them against the council (as I asume, because Zeref was the one to benefit the most from rendering Etherion and Face nonfunctional).

We didn't hear of Fiore being involved in any major war since many years. Now the things settled down and slowly starting to improve Zeref decides to start a war that is pointless. Or right because humanity is evil, wage wars and kill each other. Hope Zeref like most hypocrites in fiction ends up with a peg in his gut.