I’ve wondered that before. The rebels blew up a whole space station full of people.
And remember all the decapitated Storm Trooper heads in ROTJ at the end during the celebration? I don’t think those were just helmets on spikes...
I wasn’t under the impression that the Death Star, that was used to blow up a planet full of innocent people just to get Leah to talk, was just a space station, as if they were just all minding their own business until the bad old Jedi came along and killed them needlessly.