User blog comment:The Crazy Terror/PE Proposal: Ares (DC Extended Universe)/@comment-30861466-20190905005417

No, he's got limits and was pretty reluctant to kill Diana for a start and as 694244 said his belief that his goals although very bad by our standards were ultimately in his best interest to make the universe a better placed. Not only that but Ludendorff and Dr. Poison outweigh him in heinousness.