Mecha82 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:39 pm
Deledrius wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:46 pm
I see it as mostly condemning the hypocrisy when it arises, which I feel is a pretty fair thing to do.
You have point there. Seems to me after rethinking things that maybe that's how Republic and Jedi are written in TOR. As bunch of hypocrites while Sith are written to be more open about way they are without pretending to be good.
People who openly hate and complain about hypocrisy in others are often the biggest hypocrites of all. Especially if they are evil like the Sith.
It's just primitive guilt or annoyance at work. They don't like or understand being called out on their own heinous crimes, so they actively look out for and jump down the throat of people seen as good or even just normal any time they act even slightly bad, either because it eases their own conscience or just because it reinforces and justifies their own behaviour and view of the world.
It usually involves ignoring or not caring about context or reasoning, or having strawman ideas about the other side and holding them to ridiculously high standards so you can criticise them more easily.
The Sith are in fact typically MASSIVE hypocrites because they think that they are stronger and smarter better than everyone and should be free to do what they like, yet hate it when they are on the receiving end of that treatment either because someone stronger or smarter comes along, or because their own strength or cunning fails them because in fact hard reality often doesn't give a sh*t about how strong or smart or powerful you are, or think you are.
To paraphrase one Star Wars comic, "might makes right" is a dumb philosophy that is usually abandoned the moment someone stronger comes onto the scene. The Sith believe the strong should rule the weak because they don't see themselves as weak, when in fact there are always people stronger than them and sometimes those people are not Sith but Jedi or members of the Republic, and that pisses them off because that flies in the face of the reality they have constructed for themselves so they magnify every failing of their opponents just to protect their own egos.
Chuck is playing the Sith Warrior as a sort of self-righteous Sith who thinks that the can make it to the top without being "too" evil, who only kills when they are forced to, and yet Chuck seems to get legitimately angry when other characters get mad at him for slaughtering everyone in his path because he somehow sees all of his killings as done in self-defence (even though they are only attacking him for things like breaking into their homes, and often he is there to kidnap or kill someone). Whether it's just his character or if Chuck himself believes it, his narration makes the Sith Warrior sound like they haven't done anything really wrong or anything they haven't been forced to do which is absolute B.S. given his character is the willing servant of an evil Sith Lord and is driven by personal survival and ambition. He acts like the Jedi and Republic agents who want to fight or kill him on sight are being irrational and self-righteous because he's really a "nice" Sith Lord, when in reality that would still make him extremely evil and if they knew the full details of his missions and agenda then they probably SHOULD attack him on sight anyway. He's trying to achieve victory for the Sith and he thinks that the Jedi and republic are the real assholes somehow.
Hypocrites who hate other hypocrites are the worst sort of hypocrite.
