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[d33tached]

What is your life's greatest regret?

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[faithfulson]

Greater good? Maybe. I don't know; it's hard to see a greater good in a war that takes so many lives on a regular basis.

I was 19. I had just escaped from that thing. I knew first hand the kind of people that were on that station. I knew trying to negotiate wouldn't have stopped them. They would have taken us out, our base out, and every single world that harbored any one of us until the galaxy didn't dare raise their voice against the Empire. I guess, at the very least, what I did led to a smaller death count.

[d33tached]

It sounds to me as if you've put a great deal of thought into justifying your actions, at the very least.

[faithfulson]

[ He wanted to protest to that, because wow, he wasn't trying to do that! But it did, at least, sound like that. ]

Maybe so. But knowing what that thing would have done, what it was capable of? If I went back and had the option not to fire that shot, I would still do it.

Doesn't mean I don't regret it.

[d33tached]

Isn't the nature of regret that, if given the chance to rectify the situation which one has come to regret, one would?

[It presents an interesting question not only for Luke, but D33 as well. Would he change what he'd done if he could? Would he go back and listen to her pleas, stay underground and weather Hell with her forever? Would he? Could he?

[He doesn't know.]

[faithfulson]

Only if there was a way to rectify it.

[ He really didn't believe there was. He could meditate in the Force, and find hundreds of ways the whole situation could have gone south. He really didn't want to. ]

[d33tached]

Yes, I suppose you do have a fair point in that regard.

At any rate, I thank you for your response.