Because there are only extremes.
I've encountered very few such children... mind you, I was an elementary school teacher up to about 2015.It is such a big problem. Most young gamers (say under 30) just come from an alien viewpoint. They know very little real history, they don't keep up with the news and have only watched a couple mostly animated Tv shows and movies that all gives them a nice "rated G" view of the world. And then add all the silly video games on top of that.
It gets to be pointless trying to explain that my game is "real" or "hardcore" or anything else. No matter what I say, they will just think "oh like that silly rated g cartoon I watch".
Or the players will just lie, say they understand and want to start playing the game.
Were we “bad guys”? Perhaps to some. We generally treated our friends and allies pretty well. The game was about struggling to survive and fighting for power. Sometimes, that’s not going to be pretty. If you want to be “good”, then you have to do things that would be considered good. It’s not a given. The basic structure of the game is to put that to the test, so you can see who the characters really are.
Because there are only extremes.
Do most of the storm troopers in the empire actually fire at (let alone hit) anyone?
How many of the thousands of people an individual tax collector for the empire sends things out to are being ground to poverty by it?
I don't recall anyone in canon complaining about Imperial taxes, so that's kind of speculative.
yeah absolutely hate that Trade federation blockade thingRewatch Episode I to see high taxes be a canon Star Wars political plot point leading to war and the fall of the Republic.
Palpatine instigated the whole Trade Federation Republic War on a tax issue he engineered.
About a month ago I attended the funeral of a retired gang member. He had been a wonderful father and ran his own business (a wielder, working on shipping containers). From a family perspective he was a great guy, who contributed to his community and had kept his children out of gang life.
We also heard how as a teen he'd been sent to borstal for stealing clothes and had been recruited into a motor cycle gang, becoming an early leader with mates who were burglars and got in to fights and some of whom were consider dangerous.
I don't know if the guy we buried was a good guy or a bad guy, he certainly had a varied and colorful past and was more Pirate than Robin Hood, but he was a loving protective father and generous to his community, roleplaying a Pirate doesnt mean they are unmitigated evil