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Herminny 
I guess I'll start and see if I can help this discussion a little.
For starters all people who kill think they have the right or the reason to end a persons life, but their reasoning always comes from some disturbing or enligtening event in their life.
For Voldemort he discovers is father was a muggle and being enlightened in the Slytherin house that muggles were foul beings and this insight is truly what made Voldemort want to kill his father and muggle people in general. If Voldemort was not put in the Slytherin house do you think he would have learned muggles as disgusting beings. Not to mention with all the bad people that formed their pat in life from Slytherin values would it have helped to have intervention within the Slytherin values to try to instill better values, by teaching them early on te consequences of Slytherin values.
:power, pride, and discrimination, will lead to a very lonely life.
For Voldemort having Sytherin values power was everything, he wanted to rule the world forever and did what it took to attain that goal. Do you think Voldemort had a clear idea of what living forever truly meant, most people could never bare it, but Voldemort never had feelings for anyone but himself, or did he mabe care for his followers? One thing is for sure Voldemort was either mentally disturbed (not having feelings for anyone but him) or did not tink things through. Either way his humanity was the price he willed to pay making horocruxes splitting his soul at the expense of another. I don't think Voldemort made horocruxes because his mother had died even thoug she was a wizzard.
I have to disagree with you there. Voldemort was already hurting and torturing people even before he knew that he had a father. So I think he just hated his parents from jump street, regardless of what they had been.
As far as this all being Slytherin values I have to disagree yet again with you. Slytherin just wanted to keep things strictly within pureblood families. That doesn't mean that he thought everyone else was horrible foul creatures, he just wanted to preserve his way of life. I'm sure the magical community started off with purebloods. And some of the people in Slytherin already thought that mudbloods were foul even before they went to Hogwarts. So they made the house, the house didn't make them.. Get what I mean there.
And not everyone agreed with the whole mudblood thing. I mean Snape was a half and half who loved a muggleborn. And he hated two purebloods.
To be honest i think the perception that Voldemort only valued purebloods from Slytherin was a red herring. I mean he himself was not a pureblood, many of his DE weren't purebloods either. I mean other than Bellatrix the dark lord trusted Snape the most and Snape wasn't a pureblood. He even crowned himself the Half Blood Prince.
And Voldemort killed anyone and everyone. Muggles, muggleborns, half and half, purebloods, elves, goblins... So he didn't care who he killed in his race to that top.
I think he wanted to be an elitist. He came from humble beginnings and he wanted to break away from that and shed that life. So he riled against all the things that made him humble and ordinary. Only a handful of wizards could call themselves purebloods and then since he was related to Slytherin that made him even more elite. I mean how many people could trace themselves back to a Hogwarts founder.