Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-1672596-20161008195800/@comment-1672596-20161024151623

Actually, come to think of it, should we REALLY call Palpatine a complete monster (or, heck, any Star Wars character, for that matter)? I'm only asking because, in the Prequel Trilogy at least, it's made clear that morality, if it even exists, is relative, which means the definitions of good and evil are meaningless, especially when, while Palpatine's clearly treated as a bad guy, the Jedi weren't much better, and the Republic wasn't much better either. So the term "complete monster" has absolutely no meaning in there precisely BECAUSE the characters are all amoral or at best have flip-flop morality rather than any absolute morality at all, while complete monster at least implies that there is a moral absolute there.