The Tuskin Raider Massacre - meh.
The Dooku Beheading - he had it coming. did you see the look on his face?! hah!
The Mace Murder - technically anakin did'nt murder him just *disarmed* (boy this film takes it literally) him. One of the few black people in the movie(so ofcourse he dies).
The Separatist Slayings -glad to see to them burn. vader was just too smooth in that one.
The Padme Choke - she was whiny and noone really liked her anyway. Plus without her this whole situation would'nt exist.
The Youngling Slayings/Jedi Temple Murders - Worst act of betrayal/murder in the whole series.
he ended up killing her
Not only did he choke her, but her death was directly his fault. He tried to save her and ended up kiling her. I find it ironic and funny that after he becomes darth vador, if you pay attention, Yoda says that qui-gon-jen has found the key to imortality on the good side of the force.
Originally posted by Lazerlike42
I don't agree because it's the same logic that leads to having stricter penalties for killing a police officer than for killing a regular person. A police officer's life does not have more value than anyone else's, nor does a child's life have any more value than that of a 99 year old person.
I never stated that a child's life has more value than anyone else's. This thread is about the most evil act, not about whose life is more valuable. I don't know how you got that from my post. I was implying that it takes someone of pure evil to wantingly kill children. Children are naturally trusting and innocent. To take advantage of that trust and pure innocence and to kill them is just outright evil.
One thing that should be taken into account is that when he choked Padme he never meant to kill her, as he said he could feel that she was alive. And also that when he killed the younglings, he didnt kill one, he killed a bunch of them.
So what is worse, accidently killing your wife or flatout slaughtering a bunch of preteens.
Originally posted by theflyxx
I never stated that a child's life has more value than anyone else's. This thread is about the most evil act, not about whose life is more valuable. I don't know how you got that from my post. I was implying that it takes someone of pure evil to wantingly kill children. Children are naturally trusting and innocent. To take advantage of that trust and pure innocence and to kill them is just outright evil.
To say that killing a human is worse than killing a bug implies and demands that the human's life is more valuable than the bug's (it's basic philosophy). To say that killing a child is worse than an adult also implies and demands that the child's life is more valuable. You are saying children are naturally trusting and innocent. That is a reason for why they are more valuable. Even if not, this logic supports my point because the trust between Anakin and Padme was as strong as trust can be; it was so strong a trust that it blinded her and made her see only good in Anakin despite the obvious evil.
I would ask this, which is worse, killing 20 childen, or 100 adults? If you say children (as most would), that is fine, but it demands that the childrens' lives are more valuable than the adults'.