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I have wanted to say this for awhile and now I’m going to say it.

By saying that Rey’s parents sold her into slavery to protect her in TRoS they went from drunks/addicts looking for their next fix that did something morally reprehensible for their addiction on one level or another we could understand that they were sick and while being sick didn’t justify or make them selling their daughter into slavery any less horrific we have real world examples of people doing horrible things that they normally wouldn’t do to feed their addictions.

Now instead of being addicts with a terrible, yet sadly understandable, excuse they knowingly and willfully sell their daughter into slavery to “protect” her from Sidious and those searching for her; knowing full well that she would be starved, beaten and might meet an early death due to mistreatment. It’s just as morally reprehensible as before the retcon without the understanding that they were sick and their addictions were more important than their child.

Honestly I prefer the alcoholic/drug addicts parents to the supposed noble parents that sacrificed themselves for her.

If they wanted to make her parents noble they SHOULD have had her parents leave her with another couple and after some time the couple she had been left with sold her for money to feed their addictions.

There, you have noble parents yet don’t make them horrible parents by having them be the ones that sold her into slavery.

I am not justifying addicts behavior in any way; just saying that when you’re addicted you do things that you normally wouldn’t do to feed it.