No, you said the matter of enslaved Matari within the Empire was a matter of Amarr internal policy that we should keep our nose out of. Those people are ours. They belong with us. You say you had just cause retaking Caldari Prime because it was your world. We feel we have just cause retaking our people because they are our people.
If you cannot acknowledge the parallels, then the truth of your argument becomes ‘it was ok that we took Caldari Prime because we could’, which is an inherently savage position. For the sake of clarity, that would be ‘savage’ in the ‘bestial and uncivilized’ sense. Is that your position, Diana? ‘It was ok for us to retake Caldari Prime because we’re a bunch of violent, bloody-minded animals’? I don’t think it is. I think you believe that Heth and the Caldari State moved on Caldari Prime because it was the right thing to do, because the occupation of Caldari Prime was an open wound the Federation was continuing to inflict upon the Caldari People, and because retaking the homeworld was necessary and proper and Just.
Our people did not choose to be there, they were kidnapped—a crime. And as you’ve heard directly from Lt. Kernher, the Amarr consider crime—and sin—to pass from generation to generation. Which means the beliefs of the Amarr themselves hold that the current generation is accountable for the offenses of their ancestors, and should receive justice. Their entire rationale for continuing to hold slaves all but demands bloody retribution by their own standards.
Liberating our people is the right thing to do. The continued enslavement of our Matari kin is an open wound the Amarr continue to inflict upon the Matari people. Ending that enslavement by whatever means is necessary, and proper, and it is Justice. No less Justice than the Amarr themselves proclaim they deserve.