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7/20/2025, 6:06:02 PM
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>It's the only rational explanation for why the clones would suddenly decide do to something obviously bad for the republic.
They weren't loyal to the Republic in the sense that say, an American soldier is loyal to America. When the American soldier swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, he's not just swearing loyalty to the document, but the values behind it as well as the American people (whose collective will is presumably embodied by the document, at least in theory). The clone soldier of the Grand Army may nominally swear to uphold the Republic's constitution, but not the value system behind it because he's completely divorced from it. He did not grow up on Naboo or Coruscant where he would have absorbed those values from an early age, nor does he have a say in its policies with his ballot (or else the clones would be the largest voting bloc in the galaxy). He grew up in the sterile halls of Kamino, for whom the Republic was this abstract that he had to be loyal to on pain of death. He is not loyal to the Republic because he considers himself part of it or because he believes in its values, but because he is told to. He is in essence, a spiritual mercenary.
>It's the only rational explanation for why the clones would suddenly decide do to something obviously bad for the republic.
They weren't loyal to the Republic in the sense that say, an American soldier is loyal to America. When the American soldier swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, he's not just swearing loyalty to the document, but the values behind it as well as the American people (whose collective will is presumably embodied by the document, at least in theory). The clone soldier of the Grand Army may nominally swear to uphold the Republic's constitution, but not the value system behind it because he's completely divorced from it. He did not grow up on Naboo or Coruscant where he would have absorbed those values from an early age, nor does he have a say in its policies with his ballot (or else the clones would be the largest voting bloc in the galaxy). He grew up in the sterile halls of Kamino, for whom the Republic was this abstract that he had to be loyal to on pain of death. He is not loyal to the Republic because he considers himself part of it or because he believes in its values, but because he is told to. He is in essence, a spiritual mercenary.
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