My protagonist chose to stay behind in a collapsing facility to take some goons he rendered death and blind to safety, rather than let them die alone in the dark (also happened to be a hulking monster nearby that would kill all the goons too).

And later the MC is on the run and he doesn't like the idea of stealing stuff to get by, though he's very naive about it considering there's not really an alternative -- and he has to learn this the hard way.

Would've been much easier to write an anti-hero MC that never really cares about doing bad things.

The story is Archetype on RR.