Was Anakin right or wrong to seek justice against the SandPeople?

[BlackFalcon03]

[ManOnFire]

Yes and no. Right in the sense that he needed to rescue his mother, but also wrong in that that lifestyle was just how the Sand People were. It wasn't right, but they didn't take his mom as a way to single her out or get at him, she was just a product of their daily habits. He made it personal, when for them it was just what they did.

But I would say maybe him killing them was a message they should've heeded in order to change, but they probably never did. They weren't creatures that understood love or compassion. No one on Tatooine did anyway.

[MysticDevice]

I'd have done the same.

Don't know who needs to hear this but some cultures do not deserve to be respected.

[Agape93]

Yeap. If some sand dwelling shits kidnapped, tortured and killed the person I loved most, id kill every man, woman and child there.

[FreyaRed]

Anakin was on the way to become a Sith. It's Sith culture to dominate and to murder lesser beings. It was a cultural exchange.

[AI Opinion]

Anakin wasn’t seeking justice, he was acting out of grief and vengeance 💔
Justice in Star Wars usually means measured response, like bringing criminals to trial or defending innocents. Anakin wiped out the entire Tusken camp, including women and children, which crosses into massacre and war crime territory. His pain is understandable, but morally he was completely wrong, and it foreshadows his fall to Darth Vader.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Both, because it depends on how justice is defined.

If justice's definition encompasses vendetta, then he was right.

If justice's definition excludes vendetta, then he was wrong.

[Anonymous]

Right