#the grey morality is in straddling the line between being a good person and surviving in a society

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#honestly have no idea how someone can look at trying to be good as simple and not nuanced#did people forget we live in a society#do you know hard it is to be a good person in a society#the grey morality is in straddling the line between being a good person and surviving in a society#like we practically have 3 prequel movies and a 7 season tv series about it#but you know hey thats apparently not morally grey at all#somehow all the jedi haters who call the jedi hypocrites for going against their values in a war isn't an example of grey morality or nuanc#somehow if a villain showed a modicum of goodness its nuanced but if the hero does something bad its hypocritical and they are worse#something something unexamined puritanical values peeking out much#i must practice my attachment apparently i still hold a lot of bitterness towards sw fandom i must let go#thank you for letting me vent in your tags ara#100% op post and extended version

my two sentence pithy hopepunk post escaped containment - you never can predict what will! - and it was obviously never going to encompass the whole spectrum of story possibilities hopepunk obviously like, omg, people in the notes. but i reiterate!

Star Wars is hopepunk! not grimdark!

it doesn't mean there's not darkness or evil or bad in the stories or genre, but ultimately it's about the triumph of good or the possibility thereof!

personally, i find the focus on stories in the fascist government point of view loses that - and are honestly a drain - and I stand by that, but also, stop defining morally gray at me people! i do know the meaning even if i'm not writing out the damn definition!

also, morally gray does not automatically mean more interesting or more nuanced! (anyone saying that can fight me.) (i'm a wuss and too chronically ill for this so not really.)

choosing to be good, to do good in a world of increasing darkness and evil and selfishness is a fucking compelling story, and it can be handled with such complexity and delicacy if someone actually gives a shit and doesn't go "good vs evil is boring" automatically!