yes he definitely did some terrible things, but one of my favorite parts about the show were how his indirect actions and orders kind of fucked over a lot of innocent people. Like when Vito Junior had to go to the shock camp because he was in too much debt from gambling. Or those crackheads getting stomped out (and shot) by those kids during the HUD scam. Or when Paulie strangled his mom's friend to take her money and kick it up to Tony to make good in Tony's eyes. Tony probably didn;t mean for any of those things to happen, but because of him they did. like chris said ironically in 'Chasing It' - "like a pebble in a lake...even the fish feel it"