Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190425222457/@comment-26006155-20190430223408

Actually a reason was given for why the stormtroopers miss so much in the original movie: Luke "I can't see a thing in this helmet!"

I hardly think the Stormtroopers would continue to fire warning shots at the heros while their fellows were dying all aroun them.

And I hardly think that the Death Star destroying Alderaan was a warning shot.

And Darth Vader made a point of executing several officers who failed him in the second film.

The Empire is notoriously without mercy, resorting to fear to try to control people. The very last thing the Emperor would ever do is tell his Stormtroopers to fire warning shots. He's all about making a swift, deadly example of anyone who stands in his way.

Obi Wan demonstrates that the Stormtroopers (at least those in the first six films, not the somehow-Elite ones the First Order trained that Finn was a part of) are weak-willed. He can easily control several of them with a wave of his hand.

This is what happens when you fill the ranks in an organization with Those Who Are Loyal and Those Who Are Coerced.

The Loyalists follow so easily because they have small minds, and find it easier to let someone else make the decisions. And the Coerced follow unwillingly out of fear, until the moment that fear disappears, whereupon rage takes its place and they do anything possible to destroy their hated "masters".

So the Empire's forces are filled with incompetents, and those who wish to see it Fall.

Meanwhile, those who are strong of mind are more likely to rebel from tyrany. Which is why you get so many hero-types in the Rebellion, willing to risk their lives fighting overwhelming odds to make the galaxy a better place.

If Hitler hadn't been a hateful sociopathic bastard, and made a point of killing so many of his own people, he probably would have won WWII.

But his policies forced Albert Einstein to flee to the Allies, along with so many others. And the Stalin-hating Russian citizens "liberated" by Germany soon realized that they'd traded one tryant for another that was even worse, and did every little thing possible to harm rather than help the Germans.

As Princess Leia said so sagely to Grand Moff Tarkin: "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

The above shows why the Empire is evil, while the Rebellion is good.

Which is one of the strongest resonating themes in all of Star Wars.

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So, can I prove that the Stroomtroopers weren't just firing Mercy Shots, and that the Empire is evil?

Yes. Very easily.