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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 2276482" data-attributes="member: 1308">Just to follow up: Anakin killing the children makes sense from his perspective. First, he was told to kill all of the Jedi in the temple. If he wanted to please his new master, he had to finish the job. And trying to say, "well, they were just kids," would never cut it with a Dark Master of the Sith.Second, these kids were already Jedi-in-training. Each one had the potential to threaten the stability of the new Empire and the power of the Sith.Finally: those kids represented everything Anakin never had. He grew up a slave on a harsh desert planet, surrounded by killers and thieves, was always told he was a failure by his boss & the other children with his dreams of pod racing, and was finally freed... because he was the prize in a gamble. And he had to leave his mother behind, which ultimately cost her life.These kids grew up in relative comfort, with supportive friends and adults, able to focus entirely on their dreams instead of struggling to survive, and being treated with respect he never had.In Anakin's mind, by that point, they were the epitome of everything he never had. They represented the hypocrisy that the Jedi Order was based on, and he wanted revenge.</blockquote>