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pegusus123456 posted...

And it's not like people in the old world deliberately engineered Khan and the rest to be aggressive and ambitious,

Actually, they did, but only as a mistake while trying to make the Augments.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Augment

Despite their superior abilities, there were major defects in their genome as the Augments were belligerent, arrogant and ambitious, with a diminished sense of morality. One of the scientists behind their creation said, "Superior ability breeds superior ambition." DoctorArik Soong later theorized that a defect in the genomes of the Augments created a malformation in the base-pair sequences that regulate the neurotransmitter levels in their brains, causing them to be highly prone to aggression and violent behavior, and considered fixing this defect before incubating some embryos.