Yeah it's hard to play "grand strategy" games and not feel like a monster
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I mean, back before the US President was a known monster of massively less complexity than the average children's action villain, I still believed every US President (and major nation's leader) was a monster. I believed that role might be necessary, but that the person was damned
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Not literally damned, since I refuse to acknowledge the idea of "hell" being justice (and if it existed, I'd consider God the greatest enemy to have ever existed and seek to destroy him at any cost) but you get what I mean
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Once you have more than a certain amount of power, you become a *bad person* even if society needs you to function
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I've never held to that opinion I guess.
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I mean, I think because of fantasy literature and the specific stuff I read as a kid, I always thought that if a person had killed another person even indirectly, that would be a fundamental change for that person.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
I was bothered by how Luke Skywalker doesn't really change after the first time he kills a Stormtrooper. It wasn't that I thought it was wrong of him, just that even doing that should have mattered more
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He's probably killed Sand People before
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Yeah, because he's a vile racist who doesn't think they're people, which is apparently canon now :P
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Orrrrr…. because they shoot at people?
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There are people in his community who go on aggressive raids into Sand People territory to try to "stop the raids before they start" but Luke himself almost certainly has only ever fought in self-defense
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It's one of those places where the inspirations in Western cinema are a lot less defensible than the justifications that fans can point to in terms of how ancient societies (which SW resembles most) interacted btwn rural, urban, and nomadic groups.
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*shrug* The Sand People are clearly the original indigenous population and people like the Larses are settler-colonists, it's not that ambiguous
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