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Neither greed, gambling or cowardice are really enough to make him a villain. And while from our point of view slavery is evil of course, it seems quite normal in the story, just as it was normal in Ancient Rome etc.

And Watto seemed quite moderate and not really evil. A slaver, but not an evil one.