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i don't know if i'll ever get over the clones in star wars.
the fact that they were bred and born to fight and they weren't given options or free will. they were programmed to believe they were fighting for the right cause and they were never given a choice of how they wanted to fight or if they even wanted to. palpatine saw them as less than human, and treated them like pawns, because their lives ended up basically meaningless. they were given numbers and orders and told to follow what they were told. and yet they still ended up being so innately good and human. despite the numbers they were given they became each others family, they gave each other endearing nicknames and treated each other as individuals. palpatine treated them as a collective whereas the jedi almost always treated them as individuals, calling them by their names and valuing their lives over their own. clones were so compassionate and loving, they can always convince themselves to fight for the right thing, even if they didn't know they didn't have a choice. they always believed they would find a way and they never gave up. they never prioritized their lives over anyone else.
AND EVEN THOUGH they were created to fight for a specific cause, as soon as they were given the order to kill the jedi, they completely lost their free will. they killed the very few people who treated them like human beings, being manipulated into thinking that they were evil. and after following order 66, they weren't cared for, they were abandoned. they were left homeless and ignored by the government that they were created to fight for, having no other purpose to them. so they were left alone, and they aged rapidly and died as fast as they were born, the empire forgot about them and washed their hands of them. the galaxy only remembered their existence because of the war, and that's it. their home planet was destroyed, they were torn away from duties they swore their life to, to be replaced by people who actually got to volunteer and choose their fight.
sigh