User blog comment:Ramikad Galaxywave/Star Wars Rebels: More Issues/@comment-4841625-20150110224355/@comment-26430693-20150124222543

How does calling the rebels terrorists suddenly make my opinion change that the Empire is "innocent"? It's still an act of terror, whether you like the regime it is against or not. The Galactic Empire is a totalitarian, borderline-Communist (just without the economic aspect) regime, but that doesn't mean all of it is evil, anyway. There are innocent people who work in the Empire in non-aggressive occupations. There were countless innocents who died when the Death Star was destroyed by the rebels. Yea, the Death Star destroyed a planet of equally innocent people -- but that was the call of an evil man up in the ranks, not the innocent janitors, interns, or techies aboard the Death Star. The regime and its administrators are evil, but the people who work the non-aggressive occupations for making a living are not. I'd even argue that a lot of the Stormtroopers are not evil. They are being patriotic. A lot of the newer Stormtroopers were indoctrinated from an early age to love the Empire and that the Empire is good. A lot of the stormtroopers have no recollection of the Galactic Republic and prior. They're serving their government without a malicious intent, and thus they are not at fault. They view rebels as traitors (really, they are, and I know the rebels are the good guys, but you have to understand not everyone on the other side is evil-minded.)

This would essentially be like calling either the entirety of the Soviet Union evil. The Government of the USSR WAS indeed evil. That is indisputable. They committed democide, racking up tens of millions of innocent death tolls. However, a lot of the USSR's soldiers were very patriotic and did what they thought was good, because they were indoctrinated in believing what the Government was and how it operated was good. And there are the millions of peasants whom served under the USSR, all forced to -- they are not evil. They were under tyranny.