• @marcos@lemmy.world
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    119 months ago

    Hum… That assumes people weren’t forced at gunpoint to be there. That’s a pretty unlikely assumption for such kind of place.

    (But Phineas and Ferb rescued them all, so it’s good.)

    • @ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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      79 months ago

      Fair, but had they completed their contracts under duress, who’s to say they wouldn’t be executed anyway? Those people were dead from the word go.

      • @marcos@lemmy.world
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        79 months ago

        Oh, sure, there’s no need to defend the morality of destroying the fucking Death Star. But it’s the kind of thing that would cause a lot of suffering by itself.

    • @CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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      69 months ago

      There’s very little morality to be found in wars, even Star Wars.

      What we need is a Millenium crossover. Time travelers show up and get all the innocents off the Death Star right before the torpedoes drop. Problem solved!

    • @narwhalperson
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      29 months ago

      I remember reading in an expanded universe comic of some kind that storm troopers are actually paid a fair bit above the galactic average, and that the first order is actually the ones who would hold you at gunpoint.

    • Ragnell
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      19 months ago

      If the choice is between working on a literal genocide machine and dying, the moral choice is dying. Granting an exception for the guy who sabotages the genocide machine by building in a way to blow it up.