Good and Evil in Star Wars

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One of the things I like best about the preparation for the Force Awakens is a questioning of how good people could have done bad things. For instance, in one of the novels preparing the way, Lost Stars, there’s an investigation of a young person who goes into Imperial service, and for a very long time justifies to herself what she sees being done. Of course there are a lot of things she doesn’t see being done, because Imperial propaganda isn’t just for the subjects, it’s also for the people who are serving the Empire.
The evil regimes aren’t necessarily staffed all the way down by evil people. In some ways those people are also a victim. Yoda says, “Only for the defense do you fight.” Yet, we see Yoda bringing in the Clones at the front of an army on the attack. At one point does the enemy win when you change so much in order to combat it?
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