FF:VIC Would You Save The Life Of A Helpless Tyrant? (Australia)

Brother and Sister Warriors:

I am currently conducting a collection of results from the Japanese and Australian threads to see what how the people of each culture would react in Anakin's situation.

Picture yourself running into a room, witnessing an old man whom you know to be evil, assailing a Good Warrior with waves of potent demonic lightning, and yet is losing the struggle. Exhausted and weakened, he relents his sorcery, then proceeds to helplessly cry and begs for his life, even as the Good Warrior raises his blade to strike him into hell.

Now picture yourself not as Anakin, but as a perfect stranger who is nevertheless a patriot, and one who walks the path of the warrior.

I for one would have done the EXACT same thing that Anakin did.

No matter how evil a person may be, no matter how heinous his crimes, striking down a helpless old man begging for his life is an act of murder, nay, butchery that renouncees the ties to humanity of the person performing it.

As a warrior, I would NEVER suffer a defenseless person being murdered before my very eyes if I can ever help it.

How about you?

 

Well- Palpatine wasn't helpless- so I would have killed him, But in Anakin's shoes, he was more concerned with leaving Palpatine alive to give him a chance to save padme.

 

I would've killed Windu, killed Palpatine....

lost Padme... meh... gain a galaxy FULL of prospective Mrs Vaders....

 

I would've chosen the home viewer.

 

I would have killed Palpatine. As a warrior i would have loyalty to my masters.

 

Can I Phone a Freind?

 

I'll take Mike Munro to block

 

How can anyone even contemplate killing His Imperial Majesty?

 

Can I buy a vowel?

 

I guess a 50/50 is the way to go, yep, 50/50 thanks Eddie

 

Wow, I was gonna say Brown!

 

Speaking of tyrants, where is he?

 

I've been wondering that myself.

 

Getting back onto the topic.

If you saw someone about to kill the head of state (excluding Johnny Howard) as a patriot, you'd leap to his/her defence. You wouldn't think "is this right or wrong" you'd just do it.

No matter what the story or what they'd done, they are still the head of state and not deserved of that sort of treatment. Respect for the office must be upheld.

 

I don't know about that, LV. I have very little respect for heads of state.

 

Especially Johnny Howard, whose methods of election can be kindly considered ruthless and perhaps more objectively considered outright inhumane and criminal.

 

Really? Beryl Parker from Moe had only praise for our 'looking out for our interests' leader in Herald Sun's 50/50...

 

I did say EXCLUDING Johnny Howard.

 

Ah, how I love 50/50, JE.

 

She was probably listening to the sagely advice of Bolt, so it's only to be expected.

 

Ah, yes, Bolt is a very wise man.

 

He has been known to wear pink toenails... and really, that was a serious comment, I'll give you the tip.

 

Really?

 

Really.

 

Bolt once told me that the Greenhouse Effect was really a "greens piecez" conspiracy so I was all "WHOA the turth is like totally revealed" and then gave up on SCIENCE totally because it's obviously been lying to me the whole time.

I am glad a total nitwit luddite like Bolt is spread all over the Herald Scum to tell me such truths. Oh how the ignorant can hope to one day reach the light!!