Sith Philosophy Applied to the Real World

For a Star Wars geek like me, this is going to be fun. The motion that we are debating has not really been formalized into a resolution of sorts, but in general the idea is simply that it would be good or provide for a prosperous civilization in various spheres. Particularly: military, educational, scientific, productivity, and commerce. As the Con in this debate, I must prove the Pro incorrect in this assertion that a nation based on Sith philosophy would provide for a prosperous people. In order to clarify the manner in which the judges should decide who wins the debate, I think it would be fair that of the five spheres presented by the Pro, if the Con can successfully negate the benefit of Sith philosophy in that sphere, the Con should win. Thus, I would like to begin with a basic overview of Sith philosophy. It is truly necessary to elucidate the horrors of this system of thinking in order to illustrate why a Sith philosophy would not provide for anything resembling a prosperous civilization. My opponent makes the argument that the Sith philosophy is one of ambition. And although the argument is that Sith philosophy can be modified slightly to provide for a prosperous civilization, it is necessary to hilight the ambition that the Sith philosophy calls for. The dogmatic approach to ambition in the Sith philosophy is understated severely by my opponent. In many ways ambition is a good thing. it is always good in a society to have an element that is pushing everyone to be better. But at what cost? In many cases the Sith philosophy calls for murder to eradicate the week. This sounds alarmingly similar to the eugenicists and the Social Darwinists that exited in our history. Those who subscribed to the theories believed that there were some who were inferior innately and by natural selection they deserved to die. This extreme of belief holds various problems which I will now demonstrate. Military Strength: There are various reasons that a Sith philosophy would not provide for a strong military. Though it seems that the search for ambitious and strong warriors would lead to a strong force, the truth is that it leads to the meaningless death of many of the strong just for the pursuit of power. in many cases the ambition of the Sith has cost them many a strong warriors. In fact, when we look to the case of Darth Plagueis, Darth Sidious resorted to killing one of the strongest Sith in terms of power in the force in the middle of the night just in the pursuit of power. [1] That does not provide for a strong military presence. In fact, it could be argued that the Darth Plagueis sparked a downward spiral for the Sith. Education: The elitist environment of that the Sith philosophy creates is not in any way a good environment for education. When we look to the examples of the Sith academies that existed within the Star Wars universe. The environment that is created is one of murder and elitism. For many of those who have undiscovered, they are murdered just for the fun of it or as an expression of power. Just to get into the academy, prospective students were encouraged to kill other current students. [2] This is a waste of resources (those wasted training the student that dies) and encourages the type of subterfuge and deceit that goes against the ideas of the Sith code. In many ways, the ways of the Sith encourage breaking of the codes therein. Yuthura Ban argued that there was no sweetness in victory unless there was strife. The manner in which the Sith philosophy encourages competition also contradicts itself by actually reinforcing motives to be cowardly and break the strictures of the code. [3] Productivity: Though the Sith philosophy may encourage a small number of elite to rise to the top (until a weaker member kills them through subterfuge) . The sacrifice is a great many loyal members. It seems contradictory to the ideas of productivity to simply rid yourself of the weak. Just because is a modicum less powerful than others does not mean that there is not some purpose that they could serve. Science: Sith philosophy does not really have anything to do with science. In fact, the Sith emphasis on strength rather than intelligence would decrease competence in scientific competition. In summation, the position of the Pro can be distilled to the idea that the Sith philosophy implies "cutting out the weak, ignorant, and foolish in order for prosperity to occur. " However, the problem with this idea is that it is not only the weak who face the consequences of the ambition that surrounds the Sith philosophy. In practice the Sith philosophy decays to infighting and less and less cohesion. I In many ways, the Pro in this case is ignoring one of the major elements in creating a prosperous society: stability. A society can not be prosperous unless it is stable. Thus, when we look to the structure of a society or nation structured on the ideas of the Sith, we can see that because there is not even a modicum of stability, the nation does not have any hope of being prosperous. When a nation is in an ever changing an mercurial station the only prosperity that is possible is short term. And that is not prosperity. That is just a temporary illusion. [1] . http://starwars.wikia.com... [2] . http://starwars.wikia.com...(Korriban) #Curriculum_and_faculty [3] . http://starwars.wikia.com... Spread throughout the case, I have used information from the following book: . http://starwars.wikia.com...(real-life_book) and . http://starwars.wikia.com...