Well, sometimes people just think they know what's best for other people. She thinks she's building character for them, helping guide the human race into something bigger and better. She believes that she is altruistic, and that, by doing these things, she's teaching the proverbial "be careful what you wish for". A hard, painful lesson that ultimately might help them stop wishing for something else and instead start appreciating what they have. But she doesn't know when to quit, plus she finds herself amused by it. Since she's so old, she has little emotional capacity, it has died over the years... so any emotion is good--especially a good emotion like amusement.
I like the honesty of a villain that is trying to be, or to do, good. Because that's what happens with people. Ask a guy why he murdered someone, and he'll give you (what he thinks is) a good reason for it... he'll rationalize and justify it every time.
And the older she gets, the more likely it is that she'll justify her actions and excuse them with "good" reasoning. I am trying to fix her, to show her the error of her ways... I'm trying to get her to appreciate what she has, but she's always unhappy!
Contrarily, perhaps she sees human beings as cattle. They're just mindless animals. You could even have it where she feeds off of their distress or emotions in some way.
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