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Wil -- I don't think my response depends on the notion of an absolute morality. In fact, I rather hope it doesn't, because I don't believe in an absolute morality, at least, what I assume you mean by an absolute morality. And my position explicitly does not depend on motives being 'pure'. Could you perhaps clarify exactly what it is you are objecting to?
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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