I’ve had that discussion about the droids, in Clone Wars they had this story arc about slavers and Yoda got on his high horse and I’m all “wait what”, and brought it up to a couple of other nerds. By and large we all agree, yup droids are slaves and it’s kind of jacked up for the Republic to be all uptight about it while their protocol droids are translating their rant.
One fan theory is that C3PO is actually Vader's spy since he built him and solves how Vader keeps finding those rebel scum.
When I was younger I thought the ‘clone wars’ were completely different, in my kid brain it was going to be like replacing politicians and important republic people with clones or something. But no, it was an actual war with clones grown in vats, programmed to want to fight.
So when the droid army and the clone army fought, it was basically two slave armies going at it, and one of them were actual humans. Yoda expressed some doubts if I recall, but I didn’t get the impression it was over the question of free will for clones.
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