Somewhere in a concentration camp near the end of World War II, there was a German officer doing absolutely everything he could to minimize suffering and death in the face of an encroaching enemy, dwindling supplies, and a typhus epidemic barely kept under control with Zyklon B, and today his countrymen and even his descendants are told to remember him as one of the most evil men ever to live.
If this is not a violation of the Fourth Commandment, then surely nothing is.