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I don't think so. In his internal monologue after meeting Porfiry for the first time, he 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. this verb, “step over,” is a conscious choice by Dostoevsky, and is repeated throughout the book. The word, in Russian, means the same thing as “crime”.

You can tell by the thinks himself in circles over the 80 pages leading up to the murder of Alyona. He doesn’t really think critically about whether his plan makes any real sense. He only seems interested in convincing himself through shallow ideology and philosophical blanket statements that what he's doing is objectively morally superior.

On top of this, in his confession to Sonya, he states explicitly that he wanted to kill without reasoning 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.

Thoughts like these are the crux of Raskolnikov’s theory for why he not only can, but should, kill the pawnbroker and steal money from her to kickstart his own career. And it doesn’t take a genius to point out the flaws and fallacies in his argument.

In the same vein, our Rodya would definitely kill to attain the position of what she wanted. Had she been remotely close to the book counterpart.