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I'm not really following your examples of "net good." To me the question is whether a certain action is good or bad. Yes people can make arguments about whether their actions are good or bad. However, their subjective view does not change affect the question: is a certain action good or bad?I don't think you are understanding the concept of "net good" then -- which is weird because you were just arguing for the concept when it comes to God. The idea of net good is that we total up all the good, and total up all the evil and at the end we come to an equation that has Good>Evil.
So when Putin carpet bombs Aleppo all he has to do is formulate how this action ultimately cuts the civil war short, keeps a (relatively) benevolent dictator in power, and ultimately saves lives. In other words good>evil from his carpet bombing plan.
This is the same situation and calculation you set up for God when you decided that some evil was OK as long as there was net good.