No, Eren Yeager started The Rumbling for the same reason Walter White became a drug kingpin in "Breaking Bad", ie. "I did it for me." As Eren tells Armin in the very last episode of "Attack on ...

Eren wasn't born evil. His fate by the end of Attack on Titan was a result of a plethora of experiences and losses he experienced throughout his life.

Their century of peace was shattered by an attack on their city that left a young child, Eren Yeager, motherless ... by this new truth and plots the “Rumbling,” a terrifying plan to eradicate ...