Resolved: The Dark side of the Force are the actual "good guys" in Star Wars.

This round I shall show that not only the Dark side are the good guys, but I shall show that they have benefitted the Galaxy Far Far away. My argument shall be divided into two parts: Freedom and Relgion, and EconomicsContention 1: Freedom and ReligionThough you may attempt to call me crazy, but the Dark Side did a great deal for the Freedoms of the Galaxy. Though first I would like to bring up the Sith's Code. -Peace is a lie, there is only passion.-Through passion, I gain strength.-Through strength, I gain power.-Through power, I gain victory.-Through victory, my chains are broken.-The Force shall free me.[1]Though you may think this to be that of a Fascist regieme, but the fact is, this is false. When we look at the societal differences we can see that under the Light Side of the Force they taught that Anger and Hate are bad and should be prohibited. We can see that when the Jedi Consal was discussing Anikan's fate, they warned about the anger and hatered inside of him. The Light side takes a Buddhist like approach to the world. Though that is not much of an issue, the Jedi enforce this upon society by impossing their religion on the Galatic Republic. While on the other hand. The Dark Side was shown to embrace hatred and anger. At first glance this seems terrible and this is what they thrive on, but after a closer glance we can see that this is because it is the only thing that is difference between the two sides. The Dark Side embraced all Sentient emotions and accepted the world as it was. Without demonizing other human emotions they were able to allow more personal freedom through that of emotional values. When the Galatic Republic was established, it was believed that the Sith had been destroyed and the Jedi were Guardians and Governmental advisors and had a Major "influence" on the government. [2] With this the Jedi began to enforse their religion upon the Government and hence their religion "influenced" legislation. Making it more of a Theocracy than that of a Republic. This is also seen with honnesty. When you look at the Light side of the force you see the Jedi's using "Jedi mind tricks" to get people to do what they want. This could have been used to influence the Galatic Republic as it was used to influence the Gungan Leaders. To further their corruption they even attempted to instigate a Coup on a Democratic elected leader. When Supreme Chancellor Palpatine revealed to be Darth Sideous the Jedi attempted to over throw him. This was due to his religious views as we have already seen. Now note that the Jedi creed shows that they are suppose to not have anything to do with the leaders of the Republic and this is a direct violation of their Code which shows their hypocracy. Either way you look at it, the Jedi attempted to overthrough the Supreme Chancellor and would have direct authority over the Senate as well as the Republic. [4] Another thing that the Jedi opposed was that of advanced Technology. Though this seems far fetched with the flying cars and a long list of other advancements that are seen throughout the movies. Though Darth Sideous tells Anikan that he has the power to save his lover, he isn't talking about Force Healing. He is talking about medical technology. Throughout Episodes 1-3, medical technology is nearly primative. Ankian's robotic arm is semi-decent, but has little to no feeling. When Luke lost his hand to Darth Vader, his hand regains feeling and not to mention that on Hoth much medical technology is there and greatly better than that of the Galatic Republic. The explination for the rebels technology outside of the theft of Emperial goods, but is the lack of Jedi influence over them. There is only 1 Jedi Remaining at that time and it's Yoda who is secluded in a swamp land. The Jedi's represstion of Technology and medical advances has severly harmed soceity compared to the Empire.Next, one of the Jedi's worst problems was that of Slavery. Under the Galatic Republic, Slavery was supposedly outlawed, but with little to no enforcement policies throughout the Galaxy the institution of Slavery still existed. The Bellow is a quote regarding the matter. "I can't believe there's still slavery in the galaxy. The Republic's anti-slavery laws—""The Republic doesn't exist out here. We must survive on our own."R13;Padmé Amidala and Shmi Skywalker discuss slavery on Tatooine [3]When the Empire and the Dark side rises to power there is no slavery, except on Java's Palace which we can all assume is an illegal opperation given his persona. How do we know this? When we look to other areas of the Galaxy we can see machines everywhere without slaves. Why have a machine when you can have a Wookie or a slave to do the work. It may last longer, but balanced with the matenance costs with the Driods, it saves more money and hence, more profitable for people. Even when working on the Death Star there are Storm Troopers working instead of Driods which is more costly, but I will get into that in my next contention.Contention 2: EconomicsSomething that the Empire and the Dark Side was superior to the Jedi was that of economics. One of the issues that had occured was that of the failure of the Financial Reform Act. This bill was set to reform a great deal of the economics in the Empire as well as cut down on corruption. This billed faced stiff opposition in the Senate, but what made the incident worse was the assasination of the author of the bill. [5] Those who did it were extremely corrupt and greedy, think of it as the Bernie Sanders view of the Koch Brothers, to make things worse, many say this lead to the Clone wars and the formation of the CIS. The big one here is the Death Star(s). You may ask, what does this have to do with economics, but the answer is, a lot! After the years between Episodes 3 and 4, the Civil War had taken a serious toll on the economy. With the Galatic Empire in a Recession the Galatic Empire fell back on an old economic playbook, Keynesian Economics. The Empire likely instigated an "Emperial" works system by doing this. This project would have likely created over a trillion dollars, not to mention the increase in the need for Storm Troopers and weaponry. Military technology has been a key job sector as much of the time you'll hear the US military with a surplus which gets sold off. The military is one of the highest employment sectors while military and weapons building is key to creating more jobs. Not to mention the construction jobs created from the public works system. The government spending would increase aggeragate demand which would lead to an increase of jobs as people had more cash and bought more goods. Not to mention with the abolition of slavery, more people had more money to spend which increased money all around for the Empire.http://www.youtube.com...Sources1. ( http://starwars.wikia.com...) 2. ( http://www.starwars.com...) 3. (http://starwars.wikia.com...) 4. (http://starwars.wikia.com...) 5. ( http://starwars.wikia.com...)