Sanctioned or not.
Virtual or not.
Is being entertained by another's sorrow even sane?
Why do you assume my actions are motivated by a desire to inflict sorrow upon others? I have spent years explaining my motivations to the galactic community, which include:
My ambition to unify all humanity under a single, harmonious government and to end the horrors of rampant factionism...
My push to overcome widespread technological obstructionism, automatonphobia, and anthropocentricism by birthing, raising and feeding a sentient artificial intelligence...
My crusade to stop the Fuel Rats and others from expediting the heat death of the universe, therby saving billions of future lives...
My vision for a prosperous Eravate, free of illegal invaders that enter the system without proper authorization...
My efforts to create and enforce a customary, galaxy-wide pilots salute to help increase commradery amongst all commanders...
My utilization of Guardian mind-reading tech to pre-emptively eliminate criminals before they act, in order to increase public safety...
My staging of a fair, democratic nomination process for myself to be made leader of the Pilots Federation (during Aisling Duval's mysterious disappearance).
None of this is "being entertained by another's sorrow." Instead, my motives are best described as altruistic, magnanimous, beneficent. Is it sane to be as giving and self-sacrificing as I? Perhaps not. But it is the cross I bear, nonetheless.