User blog comment:DYBAD/Love Without Selfishness/@comment-5406109-20130705224801/@comment-5406109-20130707160741

Possibly. For Lelouch probably believed his actions to be selfless love whereas others believed him to be exactly as you said: Delusional. In the end I doubt there is actually any real love with selfishness. Just many different opinions of what it is.

Look at Doctor Maxis form the Call Of Duty: Zombies storyline. Recent events show he now intends to destory the Earth and everything on it to save his daughter. For Earth's inhabitants he's a monster. To himself however, he is his daughter's saviour.