Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-1672596-20161008195800/@comment-1672596-20161008205643

Jester of chaos wrote: There is no denying both the Jedi and Sith are corrupt and flawed of that I will never disagree. Hell from what I have heard the Sith were kind of originally driven to villainy as the Jedi apparently perescuted though I am not sure thats canon. Yes typically seeing yourself as a savior would indicate you at least think you were a good person but Palpatine seems to not care either if it helps others as long as he gained the power (and immortality) he craved. He was the kind of man who would say whatever it took to convince others to join him if it got him closer to his goals yet not care what happened to them once they were no longer useful. He's a megalomaniac an opportunist who at best is a person who does not believe in good or evil but cares for no one but himself who only fakes interest in other to use and eventually discard them. Maybe if that was limited to the Revenge of the Sith novelization, where he at least had a reason to claim that he was a savior to snooker people over to his side, I'd buy your argument regarding Palpatine not actually being delusional. Problem is, the Visual Dictionary, which basically acted as All There In The Manual material for the movies, made explicit that Palpatine himself did not view himself as evil, and when something like THAT says it, it definitely had to be true, unless Palpatine's somehow like the Joker and breaks the fourth wall often.