That is certainly the reason that, from individual people to great governments, the general rule is to think through what you want to do, and imagine how it will be received by your own intimate circle, your society, or, for a state, perhaps the whole world. No doubt laying the downfall of such men to an act of the gods made it seem justified to his subjects rather than describing the brutal ways it really happened, because the idea of divine oversight was once common to states around the world.