Re:The Radicalization of Luke Skywalker: A Jedi’s Path to Jihad
by tehstone8 on Monday December 14, 2015 @01:08PM
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I'm not sure it's fair to argue that it would scale in such a way. Sure numerically it's an insignificant portion of the population but the Death Star still literally destroyed and entire planet and every living being on it.
Rather than comparing it to bombing a wedding, I think it's more accurate to compare it to destroying every trace of some micro-nation and then cleansing any plant and animal life native to that nation.
Re:The Radicalization of Luke Skywalker: A Jedi’s Path to Jihad
by masklinn on Monday December 14, 2015 @02:21PM
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> I'm not sure it's fair to argue that it would scale in such a way. Sure numerically it's an insignificant portion of the population but the Death Star still literally destroyed and entire planet and every living being on it.
Between core worlds, protectorates, governorships and colonies, the empire is estimated to cover close to 70 million inhabited worlds, and billions of uninhabitable planets.
> Rather than comparing it to bombing a wedding, I think it's more accurate to compare it to destroying every trace of some micro-nation
More like a small town taken over by entrenched terrorists.
> then cleansing any plant and animal life native to that nation.
A firebombing would do that, and that's an unfortunate side-effect more than the purpose of the act.
Re:The Radicalization of Luke Skywalker: A Jedi’s Path to Jihad
by gd1 on Monday December 14, 2015 @05:12PM
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You can try this in court one day. "Well, there were only 100 million people in Roman times, and there are like 6 billion people now, so on a relative scale, so me brutally murdering someone is an order of magnitude less serious. That's like killing 1/60th of a human, like a field mouse or a small puppy or something?"
The Empire had a population of >100 quadrilion, Alderaan killed about 2 billion people. That's a difference of 8 orders of magnitude (50 million), that's equivalent to killing ~140 earth humans. In relative scale, it doesn't come close to Hiroshima, it's closer to having bombed a large wedding.