If you examine those early issues(pre-Claremont), you will see Xavier is a sanctimonious jerk. Even in Claremont's run, very early on, he had that Dark Xavier pop out from time to time(twice, in those early issues). While Xavier for the most part keeps that dark part of himself on a leash(whereas Magneto is more apt to use his to effect change), it's still there.
As Storm said in TAS, "We all have dark sides to our souls."
And Wolverine of all people said, "Speak for yourself."
We may not want to admit it, but its true. That said, it matters more what you do, rather than what you would potentially do.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
All the way back to Stan Lee's run not just Claremonts or Byrnes Hidden Years or Onslaught. Or X-Men vs. Micronauts rapest, xenocidal Xavier. Xavier's dark side (which is Xavier) has a death count >>> the Phoenix/D'Bari thing.
Pretty scathing statement:
"To me his character has a degree of cold dispassionate ruthlessness that is the equal of any super-villain" - Chris Claremont
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Took down Psylocke on his way to Rogue.
Almost kills her again.
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Poor Jean...
Wolverine always seems to go after the Women on the team a lot harder than the boys.
Wait, a tangent pertaining to Xavier's ethics and no mention of Cassie Nova and Matthew Malloy? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
MOST of the X-men have killed. Even ones like Oreo, who ripped the heart out of Marrow to save many people (Marrow got better as she had "two hearts" (UGH)). We have to also remember that as we move further and further away from their 60's inception (where the comics code cock blocked most killing), more realistic options were put in. Logan's murder squad, was a realistic way to deal with Bastion. OR the X-men and mutant kind could have rolled over and wated for the great white Hope (heh) to fix it all