My perspective is that if you are charged by your people to protect them and you refuse to do so out of your own principles, you're worse than the enemy. You're putting your own moral vanity above the lives of your people.
Luke wasn't embracing pacifism, he was realizing that this was an instance where aggression wasn't going to work and was going to turn him to the Dark Side.
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Date: 2010-02-19 05:43 am (UTC)Luke wasn't embracing pacifism, he was realizing that this was an instance where aggression wasn't going to work and was going to turn him to the Dark Side.