Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
Also, the slave army.
The Clones are not slaves.

The Republic treats them like any other kind of soldier (and it had other soldiers during the Clone Wars, even if we usually only see fairly high-ranking officers), they are paid, they are allotted leave, they receive medical care when injured, and everything else a regime would be expected to provide to its armed forces. In fact there's very strong contextual evidence that the Clones were treated far better by the state than the Empire treated later conscript troops.

Yes there are weird fictional ethical questions about the clones, but most of them are tied to their creation, something the Jedi Order was explicitly not responsible for. If Yoda had gone to Kamino and ordered the Clones freed, then when a desperate Republic launched a crash military recruitment drive 99.9% of all Clones would have immediately signed up.

Is having millions of people indoctrinated into their very genetics that to fight and die for the Republic is the very best thing they can ever do rather awful? Yes, certainly, but the clones' existence was a fait accompli, it had already happened and the Jedi just had to deal with it (that the Senate ordered increasing levels of clone production throughout the war is also not the fault of the Jedi). How well they handled this issue is somewhat debatable, and was a matter of considerable conflict between people writing in the shared universe, with Karen Traviss specifically trying to make the Jedi look like monsters and everyone else portraying the matter in a much, much more level fashion.

Now the Jedi Order failed to sufficiently investigate the origin of the Clone Army in both continuities. In Legends it certainly wasn't for wont of trying, and the Disney canon includes some gestures that way as well. Unfortunately, because the story demands Palpatine's victory certain things, especially the true mammoth redistribution of funds necessary to create the clones, have to be let slide.