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The Old Republic was OK with slavery and left Anakin’s mother to die. Any one of us would have done the same in his place.
by goatinaboat 7y ago
The Old Republic was OK with slavery and left Anakin’s mother to die. Any one of us would have done the same in his place.
- mustacheemperor 7y agoUnfortunately many people lose close family members, even parents, in tragic, horrible, unfair circumstances that never see justice all the time. Most of them - I would wager almost absolutely all of them - do not commit mass murder afterwards. I vehemently disagree with your opinion about what I would have done in his place and register my unease with how you raise it as an obvious general norm.
- goatinaboat 7y agoVader moved fast and broke things sure, but he succeeded in disrupting the Old Republic. That’s why he’s the real hero of Star Wars, and a role model for the tech community in general.
- csb6 7y agoNot sure if you’re joking, but I think “moving fast and breaking things” is a bit of an understatement. I mean Vader enabled a heartless dictator to take over the galaxy and personally saw to it that a whole planet of billions of people blew up. Doubtless in the years after Order 66 Vader was responsible for millions of other deaths. I mean he personally strangled Captain Antilles for god’s sake. The Old Republic was flawed, but disruption in this manner was clearly a step towards a new, shittier status quo. Disrupting something and making it worse doesn’t make him a hero.
- goatinaboat 7y agoNot sure if you’re joking Disrupting something and making it worse doesn’t make him a hero. Put it this way: I am posting this on a thread about Uber ;-)