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Originally Posted by wormraper
I'm so glad you don't work in our govt
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Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange
The Emperor never gave a damn about protecting the Republic; he played both sides so he could overthrow it and kick-start the Empire. All he wanted was "absolute power" and all the perks that come with it; the terrorist-hunting angle (something he himself instigated by secretly siding with the Trade Federation and setting up the Separatist movement) just gave him all the right excuses to sway the senate so they can give him more executive powers.
Anakin was being played and he didn't even know it, so a lot of his actions up to ROTS have been noble in spirit. When he becomes Vader, his actions become selfish (because he wanted to save Padme), and like the Emperor, he didn't care for the government. He became Palpatine's puppet to eliminate all threats; nothing the two of them did was to "save" the government, but to corrupt it for personal gains.
Even if you make the argument that the Emperor and Vader are on the defensive, they didn't need to go so far as killing younglings and purging the Jedi Order (we all saw how Palpatine used Mace Windu so sucker everybody else; that was a BS excuse to eliminate another threat). The Jedi themselves were there to defend the Republic; their overthrow came because they were seen as an actual threat, but because they were more casualties in the rise of an oppressive dictatorship (just like in history).
Above all, the morality of killing and purging entire people as a means to an end (even galactic peace) is highly debatable. At least the Jedi sought compromise when they could; the Emperor just crushed everything.
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did you mean Palpatine toyed with Mace Windu, pretended to be helpless so the first thing anakin saw when he entered the room was a big strong jedi with weapon drawn standing over a poor old man begging for his life?
if so cool. Sidious needed to get anakin to fully strike out in anger, like he tried with luke in ROTJ, to complete his transition to the dark side. so many blind jedi lovers think Mace Windu beat Sidious but Sidious beat 3 jedi knights and a master basically in a minute or so. not many people want to believe that lol.
anyway, i'm just saying since jedi were trained to destroy Sith i don't see what the problem is with Sith destroying jedi.
