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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Whether that makes Luke himself a *bad person* is a loaded question, but it's there
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
(I still remember the account I read of a Black girl who saw Star Wars in theaters and fell in love with it and then had her dad patiently ask her, "What color skin do people have who live where there sun shines bright?")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
("What does it mean that they made a planet with TWO SUNS but they still didn't want the people to look like you and me?" ...And, I mean, in-universe, it makes it pretty obvious the white people arrived fairly historically recently)
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