Why does Morlar choose evil over good?

He does not know any better, and his doctor did not help him at all to understand himself. Instead she corrupted him with her stubbornness. His disease and harm causing was at first fueled by his hate (later on to make the doctor believe him), so presumably his love could correspondingly cure and help people (along with some Jedi style training). However noone helped him understand make that simple connection in his entire life. The doctor was his last resort and instead of helping him she drove him insane. She even tried to kill him and then took her own life instead of helping him and trying to understand him, which was all that he asked.

In a sense the doctor chose the destructive way as well, perhaps because if she accepted that he had powers and tried to help him she would have to reconsider her entire viewpoint of the world and much of her medical training. This is made quite evident in the film. Doing bad, stupid things is always much easier than doing something good and creative. This requires real work. If the film has any message this is it. If a Kwisatz Haderach (look it up) like Morlar is ever born he will be morally pure, aka neither good nor evil. If he asks the help of someone like Zonfeld he might destroy the world. But if he is helped by a mentor who will try to understand him, train him, teach him self-discipline, love him and cultivate his powers, then a new golden age for mankind will commence, because "The sleeper will awaken" (yet another Dune reference)

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The whole point of the story is that Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Simple as that


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Because once you assume a god complex, but fixate on the bad stuff that your omnipotence could prevent but effectively are caused, or allowed to happen, by your non-intervention, then you are likely to conclude that "god" is inherently evil. The alternative for Morlar is to accept that he is impotent. That he is neither the cause of or prevention to disaster.

His 'power' only goes into operation when something royally ticks him off and incurs his 'deathlook.' It's similar to the way Bruce Banner only turns into the Hulk when he gets angry.

In other words, because anger provokes his 'gift' it naturally manifests in destruction.

Even in the case of bringing down the airplane, he was irked that his therapist didn't believe him. Thus he angrily says to himself, "I'll show her."

But that leaves us with the question of why he doesn't at least try to learn how to tap into this power for benevolent purposes at some point in the story? As someone else pointed out, the obvious theme is power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, which was effectively illustrated in the original Star Trek pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before," not to mention "Carrie."

***SPOILER***
The fact that Morlar (albeit semi-conscious) lay in a hospital bed in a semi coma (administered by his own publicist) *might* just have added to his (almost full-blown) disdain of humankind (or at very least, proven his rationale?)

Yes, his cynicism was already there, but perhaps his predicament confirmed/added to such?