I have been reading a good deal of this, debate and declined from speaking, but bad feeling is being caused and that is good for no one.
So for what it is worth, this is one persons opinion from a lot of experiance, as a Jedi as a soilder and as a Queen. You cannot solve all problems without casulties. This is a fact. I have seen many wars and many political coups as well as more than one random crazy who will not ever change and who cannot ever be helped. To believe they can be helped tends to loose more lives.
Of course, the last resort should be to kill, but it is not always possible to do otherwise, and to believe it is is in my opinion impossibly naieve.
I will not insult anyone that makes the choice not to take a life. But to insult others that will and that have for whatever reason is foolish and uncalled for. But the point I wished to make based on what I have seen here and at home is this. People will do anything,
anything for those they love, people will defend them against all others to protect them, This is a basic truth of any sentient being with an ounce of goodness within them, Is this not a good thing? An admirable trait.
For my part, I have taken lives. Many lives. So I speak from experiance.
I have taken life in war and in peace time, lives of a species called the Yuuzhan Vong, Beings that would have done anything to see the governments and people of worlds in my home Galaxy fall so that they could impose
their will and
their Gods on us, I watched as they took the Galactic Capital and tried to rebuild it in the image of their lost homeworld, I lost friends to them,
for a time lost Jacen, I have taken the lives of Nobles who tried to take my throne from me, who tried to take the lives of myself and my daughter. But equally I have chosen to spare lives when it serves the greater good. Lives of men who engineered a nano attack against my ship. These men used my fathers DNA to target my family, many died, Allana and I escaped because... because we were warned in time... And yet, these men I spared to ensure peace, to finally end a war, their lives were in my hands and I assure you I
wanted them dead.
So in truth, Arguing this is pointless and should cease because both sides are defending their own in their own way. And neither will back down, because again it is a matter of defending those they love.