I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was saying Magitek made the Garleans evil, because I most certainly wasn't.

What I was trying to say is that when people feel like they've been beaten down by the world, they tend to overdo it once they empower for themselves. Just look at Nazi Germany. It was the very conditions imposed on Germany by the Allies at the end of WWI that allowed Hitler's nationalism to gain traction. Does that excuse what they did? Of course not, but it would be unwise to disregard the role that a pure, honest need for worth played in their rise to power, or what created that need.