In Star Wars Neither the Republic or the Empire are Good or Bad

The last time I will be arguing in this debate. *wipes tear from eye* First and foremost I feel I need to rebut something that my opponent has said in his last post. He mentioned that we are not talking specifically about the Republics government and then went on to mention that a lot of the people were very nice and didn't kill each other and used this to infer that the Republic was not all bad. I would like to point out that there were probably people in Nazi Germany who were nice people, many members of the Nazi party themselves were probably, in essence, nice people. Yet whenever we think of the Nazi's we think of Adolf Hitler and the killing of so many innocent people. Pro also continues to insist that we must take into account the Empire and the Republic as a whole, before deciding whether the were good, bad, or indifferent. He says that both of these systems did things that were good and things that were bad, and that these acts balance combine to form an equilibrium between good and bad. Need I remind you that the Empire blew up a PLANET! I'm sorry, but a basic sense of morality has to take over here. 20 years of tense, fear induced peace does counteract the murder of billions of innocent life forms, human or alien. If a serial killer lived the first 20 years of their life without harming anyone then suddenly decides to kill a couple of people in cold blood would you still consider him to be, as a WHOLE, a neutral person. Noone in their right mind would ever think this. Every sane person would cry for this person to be locked away for the rest of their life for the atrocities they have committed. So why should the same reasoning not apply to the Empire as a WHOLE? Sure you may argue that the Empire is a vast network and that when you examine each and every individual facet of the Empire you may be able to say, well this part was good, this part was bad and that part was fairly indifferent. But is my opponent is referring to the Empire as WHOLE, so this in depth analysis should not began into account. Only the total sum of everything that the Empire has done may be examined to truly look at it as a whole and in that case, the evil (or bad, whatever you want to call it) far outways the good. This was the first debate I ever accepted on this site and I would like to sincerely thank my opponent for providing such an interesting and rather though provoking debate and I hope this can be the first of many debates between us (yes I do have some interesting Star Wars topics up my sleeve). Also I would like to wish my opponent all the best with his grammar, which I know can be a rather daunting concept for every writer, no matter now good they are. In that regard I think this may come in handy: http://www.grammarly.com.... Lastly I would like to briefly make my end of debate plea to the voters: The Nature of this debate is such that I only have to be half right. If, for some reason, you didn't think I proved that the Empire was evil, but you agreed with me about the flaws in the republic (or vice versa) then I still win because I have proved that the statement "In Star Wars Neither the Republic or the Empire are Good or Bad" is incorrect. VOTE CON! (Or Jabba the Hut will feed you to the Rancor and there won't be any disguised bounty hunters or wookies around to save you!) And the may the force be with you, always!