What is Kohlhaas Doing?

In the story by Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas, the reader is first presented with a description of an extremely moral character. The story that follows about Kohlhaas's issues with the Junker and the courts' bias reflects the impossible situation of two conflicting "rights." The first is that Kohlhaas has been mistreated and should stand up for fair treatment and the second is that there is no conceivable way to handle the situation, according to Kohlhaas, without destroying something. Kohlhaas, as he must, chooses the path to stand up for what is right and goes to harm or kill the Junker. When he kills and harms all of the property of the Junker and the people there EXCEPT the Junker, he moves on to find the Junker and continues to destroy and pillage and plunder everything in his path. Here is where Kohlhaas loses sight of what he set out to do. Here is where his actions no longer reasonably reflect his purpose. Fast forward to the end of the story, when Kohlhaas is killed because of his communication with Nagelschmidt, he pays for taking his destruction too far.