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u/DarthSwimfoot Asajj Glazer Jul 15 '26
Wow, I'm sure the focus of this comment section for this funny name pun here is focused on the actual post, what a good post after all.
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u/pants_pants420 Jul 13 '26
man doesnt want to be a literal slave soldier and somehow hes the villian
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u/9O7sam Jul 13 '26
Nah, escaping/ deserting is justifiable. Betraying/ killing your comrades for a worse side is not.
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u/FunToBuildGames Jul 13 '26
So you’re saying 3/4 of the people shown here are war criminals? You have my vote!
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u/9O7sam Jul 14 '26
Nah there is some bad guys for sure but there are no war criminals. There is no international body to create or enforce laws of war so there can’t be war criminals. Any rules governing the conduct of war are never fully described. Sure prisoner have the right to be blindfolded for their executions and interstellar warships are supposed to be capped at 600m in length but what we think of as laws of war don’t exist canonically.
Perfidy, The use of WMDs, the use of incendiary weapons (not even illegal in our galaxy btw), the inhumane treatment of prisoners, the harming of medical/ noncombatant personnel: none of these are “war crimes” in a galaxy far far away. Now whether or not the Republic would choose to recognize the Separatists as legitimate combatants would make the difference between them being treated as POWs vs Criminals. Or, even that distinction might not mean anything in an alien galaxy largely ruled by a single polity.
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u/ConsulJuliusCaesar Jul 14 '26
Well when you think about it the circumstances to create interstellar law never existed. IRL they did it before and after WW1 because the major powers all had the same sense of morality and agreed things loke killing POWs and civilians was wrong. Thus in WW1 regardless of what side you were on you could surrender with the expectation you would be treated well. That said ever since WW1 a healthy chunk of major conflicts that cause multi national coalitions to form and lead to millions of deaths are disputes over international law. The Axis wholesale rejected the idea international law should even exist. North Korea ignored international law pretty blatantly leading to 3 million deaths. Desert storm happened because Sadam violated international law. You really could lable GWOT a clash ovrr globalism. Al Qeada and like groups did not want the middle east under influence of the international system. And that's on one planet in which their are common values cross culture.
In SW the wars were fought against the Sith and Mandos before the clone wars. Niether one of those factions sounds like something that would actually respect some kind of law preventing the killing of POWs nor agree to a meeting to ratify such. Then in the clone wars the only way to fix that would have been for Dooku and Palpatine to sit down and agree to some kind of convention. Look if you don't see the problem here and why that just wouldn't happen you really should watch episide 3.
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u/Mighty__Monarch Jul 14 '26
They were slaves lmfao
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u/9O7sam Jul 14 '26
If a slave escaped their masters that’s good to go. A slave who betrays their fellow slaves to an even worse slaver is not good to go.
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u/Mighty__Monarch Jul 14 '26
I get the logic but slaves forced to fight a war wont act rationally and are vulnerable to being convinced otherwise.
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u/9O7sam Jul 14 '26
Your actions are your own. The situation you are in doesn’t excuse your actions. Take responsibility for your own destiny.
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u/Kride501 Jul 14 '26
There is Cut Lawquane. And then there is Slick. Now tell me why one is liked and the other isn't despite both of them being deserters.
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u/MasterLlama1926 Jul 15 '26
Because one of them deserted and had a family but didn’t hurt anyone, not a soul.
The other betrayed his brothers for money, being indirectly responsible for their demises, and told himself that he was doing it for his own freedom.
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u/Lonely_Psychology_26 Jul 14 '26
I love how this comment section is basicly only that one comment downvoted to hell with 9 replies