i think. in a lot of trigun role reversals ive seen ppl are relying too hard on vash's adult persona. like yeah i guess the stampede interpretation could be yeah he's kinda nuts he loves humans so much he wants to save them from themselves by granting them death. but trimax vash pretty much was abt to go down the same hateful path as knives had rem not intervened and had that happened he would not have been all "love and peace!!!!" he would have been a lot more like knives