One of the best things to come out of #TheMandalorian https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">--not that fandom really seems to want to touch it--is that Anakin& #39;s murder of the Tusken children is less and less justifiable (it was never justifiable) and more clearly what it is: murdering the children of an indigenous ppl

And that a lot of times I think we don& #39;t touch what that means for what Anakin did because there& #39;s no way to solve it without basically handwaving it away

And also that we don& #39;t want to touch it because the treatment of the Tusken people in the PT was completely lacking in nuance from THEIR point of view, we know they& #39;re probably NOT actually animals (THEY WEAR CLOTHES, CLEARLY THEY ARE SENTIENT)

and we don& #39;t seem to know what to do with THAT either. But we& #39;re getting even more nuance about how they are indeed a people and have a culture and they& #39;re not just murderers or whatever, but what does that mean when we look back at Anakin& #39;s actions?

We want to save Anakin because we LOVE Anakin and his mom was tortured and the dark side isn& #39;t just an excuse, it& #39;s a legitimate thing that influences Force-sensitive people, this is precisely why emotional control is so important, because THE FORCE IS AN ECHO CHAMBER IN YR HEAD

But where is the balance between saving Anakin/ignoring the injustice to the indigenous children vs ignoring the living person who can be saved/the children that punishing Anakin won& #39;t help?

I don& #39;t have an answer and nobody else in fandom seems to, either.