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Which has nothing to do with the conversation at hand...Well, right. But what you seemed to be getting at is that killing their own people intentionally for strategic reasons is solely an Empire/First Order thing.
It's different in the sense that when Vader does it, it's just usually because someone's pissed him off by screwing up, sure. I guess you could make a strategic argument for that too, in a really goddamn ruthless world view.
It's not the same thing, Cassian didn't "execute" the guy in a judicial sense for messing up. But pretty clearly the Rebels (not so much mainstream Rebels, but their military intelligence wing) isn't above putting down their own guys who have the right intentions & aren't necessarily traitors, if they feel they have to.
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Which has nothing to do with the conversation at hand...
Would Finn, a member of the Resistance, execute someone for revenge has exactly what to do with what you wrote? Because that was the point. That was the question. If Finn would murder someone because they crossed him in the past. And considering we have seen multiple executions in the Star Wars films and they have all been carried out by dark side wielders, Imperials, Separatists and First Order members I am confused by what is even the argument here. Because that isn't what Cassian does at all.Erm...
Would Finn, a member of the Resistance, execute someone for revenge has exactly what to do with what you wrote? Because that was the point. That was the question. If Finn would murder someone because they crossed him in the past. And considering we have seen multiple executions in the Star Wars films and they have all been carried out by dark side wielders, Imperials, Separatists and First Order members I am confused by what is even the argument here. Because that isn't what Cassian does at all.
The Rebellion killed around 1 million people on each death star. Some of those people being slaves and wrongfully imprisoned beings and non combatant imperials. With the first death star it can be argued that it was self defense because the death star was about to destroy yavin. But that doesn't change the fact that they sacrificed a million people to save themselves and for the greater good. In the case of the second death star they attacked it when it was under construction meaning there were no doubt contracted workers and more slaves than were on the first death star. They attacked the second death star when it posed no immediate threat to any planet. Because they believed it was for the greater good. The Rebellion is more than capable of making unilateral decisions when they think it's good for the galaxy and it's people.
And there seems to be an attempt to paint DJ as less of a POS than he is. He didnt just "cross" Finn. That makes it sound as if Finn is some petty boss with a petty grudge. DJ sold people's lives for cash and then shrugged about it and walked away with his money. That's beyond heinous. It's the sort of thing that deserves an execution. So no it wouldnt be murder. Itd be justice delivered.
Let's bring this into a real world scenario. Imagine American soldiers in Afghanistan or some other hostile war zone. A group of american soldiers is cut off from help and being hunted. Someone tries to sell those troops to a terrorist group for cash and in doing so gets some of the soldiers killed. Gets some non combatants killed too. How do you think the military would respond if it found out a person did that? You think they'd let it go? No, they'd hunt the person down like a dog and kill the person. I expect nothing less from the Rebellion. It's a military and a refugee group. Its operating in a war zone during a a time of war and it has no backup or aid of any kind. And DJ tried to destroy it for cash. Not only that but by doing so he was helping destroy the last opposition to the First Order. Which means he pretty much sold the whole galaxy to the First Order for his own personal profit.
Uhh, yeah. They were supplying the enemy, leaking state secrets. China's pretty hardline, and obviously doesn't give a crap about human rights, but sure, if they had the proof then yeah, you charge them with treason and they meet their maker. They'd get a trial in a more civilized country than China, so that's where they're wrong on it, but I guess the principle of the thing is otherwise sound.
We used to do that not all that long ago too. Chelsea Manning likely would have taken a bullet back in the Cold War, doing the same thing with analogue information.
Personally, I loved that they showed the darker side of the Rebellion in Rogue One. I thought it was something interesting and new for them to explore. You don't overthrow an evil empire without doing some darker things yourself.