The destruction of Alderaan was justified

This round I shall show why the destruction of Alderaan was not only unjustifiable, but unethical. Contention 1: Kingdom of EndsA key thing one must acknowledge here is the Kingdom of Ends. This is the simple, you cannot use people as a mean, but only an end. The Kingdom of Ends can only be described as a Utopic society of which everyone is in harmony. This is that no one uses other people as a mean, but only as an end. [1] Here during the attack and destruction of Alderaan, the disccussion and interrogation was over the location of the rebels. In which not only was the planet destroyed, but billions of innocent people were slaughtered who had done nothing to become involved in the Galatic War. What is the message the Galatic Empire has sent out after this destruction? That of murdering people of an innocent planet to interrogate one person. Keep in mind that after the Empire discovered the rebel base on Hoth that the invasion may have only dislodged the Rebels, but had not crushed the rebellion. Kant stated that, "the Idea of the will of every rational being as a will that legislates universal law. "[2] So when we observe the event it showed the killing of an entire planet of innocent people for the interrogation of another. It is no doubt that they were looking into psychological torture for this method in order to get the information from Princess Leia. Though we do not have much from the Star Wars universe on the matter, we have to turn to Real life matters to discover this. Former CIA official Bill Harlow and former Guantanamo prosecutor David Iglesias have both, in a PBS interview in the face of the CIA release of torture reports, that the means of interogation, can be achieved the same if not more without torture than with torture, though this is for another debate on that matter. [3] So with that in mind, we can see that the planet of Alderaan would still be here if this had encured. When we attempt to use the will of the rational being and attempt to make it universal law then we can see that it would be justifiable to murder everyone on an entire planet that has nothing to do with something in order to get information on another thing. Kant had also had a writing on this matter. He had described that if a murderer were to inquire about information regarding family or loved ones any answer they would received would not be that of a valid and truthful one in the case when a truth is attempted under threat. [4] This is because it puts them into a state of no longer being a Rational being due to there shock. At this point she could have said they were on the Wookie home planet and the Empire would have half believed it. The same would have been said if she told them the true location. This taking them out of the Rational state is a truely harmful to soceity as it diminishes human, or in the case of Star Wars, Sentient ability and dignaty. Contention 2: Veil of IgnoranceHere one must look through Rawl's Veil of Ignorance. In order to do that one's creed, race, sex, religion, political views, and generation does not matter. This in in order to eliminate bias from the viewer in order to view his two principles of Difference and Equality. The Equality Principle is that the greatest extent of Liberty for everyone. The other states that it must benefit everyone, including the least advantaged, must be open to everyone, and your enemy chooses your position in that society or scenario. [5] Not to mention that you do not know what time period you are from, so it could be past, present, or future. When we look at this situation we can see that when you remove the bias one can see that this is completely unjustifable. For one, since your enemy gets to select your place in soceity which means that the place your enemy would select is on Alderaan when the Death Star destroyed the planet. We can also see that this is a completely violation of the Equality Principle as it shows that there is no equality of the people in this situation. With everything kept in mind the oppertunities and liberty for all is shifted all across the board where the people of Alderaan are slaughtered senselessly and have none. [6] It is more likely than not that if Princess Leia even stated the true whereabouts of the Rebel army then the planet would still be destroyed. This is also an obvious violation of the Difference Prinicple as it does not benefit the people on Alderaan which are the least advantage in this situation. Thus making this situation both unjustifiable and unethical. Contention 3: Ethic of CareHere we have to focus on the Ethic of Care, or more commonly known as Feminism. In this argument we have to observe that we must care for our future generations and care for the world, galaxy in the case of Star Wars, for our future generations. [7] Again, this also involves not being awhere of what generation that you are appart of which strikes trouble as you would also want to preserve everything, since you do not know if you are in a future generation. Of which, you would want to keep as preserved as much as you can. Here, since you do not know what planet or anything you would be you would be against on Alderaan. If you were on the side of the Empire you would be against it as the millions of Alderaanians who were off world immidiately joined the Rebellion, not to mention that Master Chief Gunnery Officer Tenn Graneet, stalled so long that he allowed Luke Skywalker to destroy the Death Start. Not only did this cause severe harm for the entire Galaxy, but if backfired against them leading to a huge downfall. [8] If he didn't freeze we would have destroyed the Rebel planet Yavin 4 and the war would have been over, but the destruction of Alderaan had caused him to freeze up and the Death Star was destroyed. This had not only caused a great deal of people to die, but has caused the war to continue which made things worse for the entire Galatic Empire. Sources1. The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanual Kant2. Ibid pg. 432 3. (. http://www.pbs.org...) 4. On a Supposed Right to Tell Lies from Benevolent Motives, Immanual Kant 5. (. http://plato.stanford.edu...) 6. (Fleming, J. , (ed. ), 2004, Rawls and the Law, Fordham Law Review 72 (special issue). )7. MacGregor, Sherilyn (2006). Beyond mothering earth: ecological citizenship and the politics of care. Vancouver: UBC Press. p. 286 8. (. http://starwars.wikia.com...)