He has two inexcusable kills: letting Jane die (which of course lead to many more deaths), and letting Todd kill the kid during the train robbery. Neither of those was kill or be killed, the kid might have presented a problem but probably not (kids are cheap to bribe, and who’s going to believe them).
And even some of the folks inside the business were borderline. He didn’t have to kill Mike or his crew. He didn’t have to kill Gale and more importantly he didn’t have to force Jesse to kill Gale. All the battling with Gus (with all the deaths) was purely Walt’s fault.
Then of course there’s the non-deaths. The vast array of lies and manipulations. The non-lethal poisoning of Brock. Walt’s just a scumbag now. He sees the world as tools and obstacles, classic sociopath. He started off trying to make enough money to keep his family well, but the ego got in the way, he decided he wanted an empire. That’s when he became 100% evil.
Plus how many times this season have we been told that Walt is the devil? Marie said it jokingly near the end of season 5 episode 8 and Jessie said it last episode.
For all the reason you listed Walt is evil.
There may a little good in him but only like the amount that was in Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi.
not the way I see him
He didn’t ‘let’ Todd kill the kid... But I was surprised that he didn’t do anything more then reprimand him.
To me, Todd was always the weakest character in this show. Walt has demonstrated more brains then to keep a loose cannon around like that.