Incidentally, seeing as Daniel, Charlotte, Miles, Lapidus and Naomi were recruited by Abaddon... and Abaddon was working for Widmore... and Widmore ordered Keamy to "torch the Island"... We can assume that Abaddon didn't have their best interests at heart - it was practically an (unwilling) suicide mission.
Which all sort of throws more light on the argument of whether or not Widmore is more "evil" than Ben.
Oh agreed and very good point.
What I have thought is that both of these men have a reason for protecting the island and the means to the end is something only they can comprehend.
So with that said are either right or wrong? If in the end they truly mean to protect this island then how they go about it and the loss of lives are of no consequence for in the end it will balance. But what we have been shown of either character is a great deal of arrogance, pride, greed and so forth. We have seen more compassion from Widmore than Ben. The only time we have seen anything of care from Ben is when Alex was killed and that was so short lived.
I would hope in the end that neither of these men win the island.
