User blog comment:Bluefox87/Is Trafalgar Law a bad guy?/@comment-24.235.56.170-20150619192453

The rumors are a result of people not understanding his powers.

While he did, literally, deliver the hearts of 100 pirates to the government in order to get his position, none of those hundred pirates were dead.

People thought he was brutal because they thought that he had killed 100 men and carved their hearts out of their chests, but we've seen first hand what actually happened (with Smoker).

He's not evil, his powers are just creepy, and he has no problems with using that to intimidate others.