*knows how bad this is going to sound and says it anyway*

I do not value human life highly. I was voted most likely to become a serial killer before my death in high school XD

If the consequences would not endanger my family there are far more people than a military dictator I would wipe from the human race. So would I save him? Hell, that's a step down from actually killing him. If I felt what he had done in life was dishonorable, yep. I'd make sure he died without weapon in hand as well.

Edit: Ick, I skipped the second half of the question. Oops. I wouldn't consider myself a hero or a villain. I don't feel the action was wrong, but it wasn't heroic either.

On another note:

This so just happened on House MD "The Tyrant".

If it were some gang member or any of the greedy fat cats on wall street or kids that rob houses and beat up the people than I'd rather them die

Well, I was going to answer no until I read the rest of your question. But even an evil military dictator is a fellow man, and perhaps my actions to save his life would have an influence on his future behavior. Many people change their lives for the better once they've been at death's door. I would feel that if God put me in a situation to save a life, no matter whose it was, then I'd be disobeying Him if I didn't. So I guess my answer is still no. I wouldn't consider myself either a hero or a villian, just obedient.

Your question is so context-driven. Most of the time, most people would figure that they should do their best to save another, but there might be extenuating circumstances, like if a serial child killer is hanging by his fingernails from the roof of an office building, screaming for a hand...

In the specific case you're describing, actually I would try to save the dictator, so I could put him in an isolation tank with a flat-screen monitor and a speaker, and I'd thread wires into his brain, into assorted pain centers, and then I'd put out a call to everyone who was victimized by the dictator to send in stories and reports of family and friends hurt by the guy, and then we'd draw them out of a hat, and present them to the dictator on the flat-screen, with a voice saying, "Next up we have Sheila, who was tortured to death after being buggery-raped by every brownshirt in the station, and here's what she experienced because of *you*".

Then computer controlled sensory stimuli would be fed into his brain as pictures of how the scene must have looked from the girl's point of view would be played out on the screen, with their laughing and her screaming coming from the speaker, and do that until EEG monitors show that he's reached the limit of his tolerance amd is about to black out... and then I'd stop that round, wait for the EEG to say his brain had settled down, and then I'd flash another picture on the screen, saying, "Here we have Ted, who was shot in the head after both his arms and legs were broken by your blackshirts for daring to speak the truth, which is that you're an insane idiot, and he's what it was like for him..."

I wouldn't let him eat anything... just be tube fed... and I'd never let him out of the isolation tank... and I wouldn't stop until he's experienced every harm he willfully and knowingly created.

But that's a special case that you described.

In general, I have a tendency to size up people as being one of two types: Those whom, because they exist, the world is or can become a better place, and those whom, because they exist, the world is a lousier place, so, in general, if I knew enough about the person to know they're of the first type, those who make the world a better place, I'd do my best to save them, but if I knew enough about them to believe they were of the second category, those who make the world worse just by virtue of the fact that they're on it, I would not try to save them.

If I didn't know anything about the person at all, I'd err on the side of caution, and presume they are of the good sort, and would try my best to save them.