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I don't actually know if it would be any different. In his internal monologue after meeting Porfiry for the first time, he essentially chastises himself for trying to convince himself that he's doing what he does for any kind of good cause, and states that the great men of the past were right because they were capable of stepping over blood with impunity and were revered for it.

And as stated before, in his confession to Sonya, he states explicitly that he wanted to kill without casuistry and whether he became some kind of benefactor to mankind was irrelevant to him, and that he killed to dare: to see if he, like Napoleon, could assert himself above good and evil. So in a way he didn’t want to do something great like the people he looked up to, he wanted to prove to himself that he was just as great as them in this one cruel narrow way. It's only after Raskolnikov kills that he feels regretful and senses that his act was unjustifiably morally wrong as it reveals the boundless egoism and the horrors of the ideologies that Dostoevsky is warning us against.