[IC] SWS/DnD5, Star Wars the Old Republic – A Gathering Darkness
Jihahna frowns a moment at Kacela's words. The blast goes off, then as the last hot pieces of shrapnel fall about her, she speaks again. "When I was a Merc, I never had to deal with Jedi or Sith values, but I WAS taught about the values most commonly instilled in law enforcement personnel in their training. Mostly to help deal with the better disciplined, more resilient forces you find on core worlds.
One lessen in particular they had to learn about regarding corruption revolves around a metaphor known as the 'slippery slope'.
Sometimes, one mistake is all it takes for an officer to start slipping more and more. To utilise this for manipulation, a criminal has several options, bribery, threats, blackmail, but I was taught that the best way to encourage this is with subtle compromise.
Encourage them to make compromises SO small, they would barley seem to matter at all, then escalate things from there.
An example where an officer may think they are completely doing the right thing may be through over-use of force... First it starts with an unjust shove of a prisoner here and there, then eventually as things get progressively worse, they decide that the criminal who beat an old lady to death for 12 creds deserves a beating in return.
A controversial view, right? I know several people who might agree the officer did a justice, despite abusing his power. The problem in my mind isn't that he chose to do it, rather, it's that he felt it was right thing to do before he made his choice. In a way, his prior belief had already predetermined or at the very least, significantly influenced his choice due to his anger and cynicism.
I guess what I'm saying is, like the officer, what if some people who fall to the dark side don't know it's happening to them because they don't believe their choices to be dark?
I mean... I guess I'm asking this because I was there once myself.... Can a powerful force wielder with all that amplified emotion be saved? Do the Jedi ever attempt to bring some back to the light? I've got so many questions about their, I mean OUR ways and I just know some of them will probably make everyone from Younglings through to Masters cringe..."
She stops a moment looking a little uncomfortable. "I don't believe this myself, but if one of the Jedi mantras is that all life is Sacred, doesn't that include the Sith? Any Jedi who doesn't try to adhere to that would probably be seen as a hypocrite by a Sith warrior, only widening the gap... Because just as my boss liked to corrupt authorities to gain power, i'm betting the Sith love to rake the Jedi name through the mud as much as possible."
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