aita?

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am i the asshole?

Life isn’t always black and white. Sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s really at fault, and no one wants to believe they’re the bad guy. Sometimes you need an outside opinion. Or several.

Tell your side of the story and crowdsource an honest answer to the age old question; Am I The Asshole?

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Re: Ysanne Isard | Star Wars: Expanded Universe

[wasstarkiller]

Right, all that slavery and murder the Empire did was incredibly peaceful and orderly.

[iceheart_imperial]

Unfortunate features, but the former would have been phased out by economic development under my administration. It's terribly inefficient, in any event.

As for the latter...are you truly so naive as to think any government doesn't? In any event, it is preferable to a war fought against the backdrop of hundreds of thousands of worlds.

[wasstarkiller]

Slavery isn’t an unfortunate feature, it’s an atrocity.

Operation: Cinder. Geonosia. The Empire went far beyond what other governments did, even among its own people.

[iceheart_imperial]

One primarily used to create labor for the Death Star projects. Again, a policy failing that will not recur.

[As for the rest, she's from the universe where those didn't happen. Nor would she have allowed anything so stupidly self-destructive, or ridiculously obvious. In her universe, the Death Star was planned and prototyped quietly in the Maw, then build with labor over the prison planet Despayre - which was promptly destroyed when it was finished. For all the stupidity of the project itself, at least it left fewer obvious traces behind.]

What ridiculousness you're referring to, I have no idea. Probably like something out of a badly-written holo-novel. But you fail to understand the scale - you speak with the morality of one person, when the stakes are, constantly, the peaceful existence of 1.5 million member worlds - and tens of millions of dependent colonies, space installations, and client states.

Sometimes, in that reality, you have to make decisions by different metrics.