Come to the Dark Side, Luke - Sydney Taylor

Sticking with the Star Wars theme, a scene in one of my favorite movies takes an interesting angle when it comes to the good versus evil dilemma. In the movie, "Clerks" which tells the story of convenience store clerks named Dante and Randal, the two discuss Return of the Jedi and the construction of the second Death Star. Randal is convinced that the Imperial army recruited independent contractors to help complete it in time because storm troopers, of course, only know "killing and white uniforms". He is distressed over the fact that they were all innocent when they were blown up in it's destruction and convinced they have no personal politics in the matter because they are simply trying to make a living. A passing roofer contributes to the conversation an example of his own personal politics coming into play when choosing certain projects, and concludes that any independent contractor working on the second Death Star knew exactly what they were getting into and still chose to take the job. So who is at fault in this matter, the Jedi on a quest to rid the universe of evil but killing innocent working class people trying to earn a living or the plumbers, aluminum siders, and roofers that deliberately chose to contribute to the construction of a planet-destroying machine just to help pay their bills? It all comes down to what people value in the world and what they will sacrifice to keep their goal alive. I don't think there is good and evil, just people struggling to make the best choices they can in a world that may be Forcing them to take a path they don't necessarily agree with.