I have the feeling Pharaoh didn't order the killing of the Hebrew baby boys as a tyrranical thing against the people's will at first. Rather, I think he did a bit of PR and tried to get the Hebrews on board with the idea, making it seem like the right thing to do, maybe even the "cool" or "in" thing.
When Moses intervened when those two Hebrew men were fighting, the men asked if Moses was going to kill them as he killed the Egyptian. Often, the one who is trying to free people from an unjust system can look like the bad guy to the people he is trying to liberate.
Pharaoh was so arrogant he had the magicians mimicking the plagues that God was placing on Egypt. "My magicians can do that. It isn't enough that the Nile and many of our other sources of water have turned to blood. I'll show Moses and get my sorcerers to turn some of what little water remains into blood."
The Israelites were forced to gather their own straw while making the same amount of bricks. This paralels our society where it is getting more and more difficult to live.
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