Uh, that's how sovereignty and jurisdiction work. Your laws and your ability to enforce them, end at your borders.
Which again, is funny how the oh-so-democratic-and-powerful Republic lets the very same evils they condemn exist right next to their borders. Even though they could easily muster an army to stop it.
Britain didn't own the African slave kingdoms that sold slaves, yet they still found time enough to put guns to their faces and tell them to shut down the slave trade. If only the Republic had that kind of balls, Anakin and countless billions wouldn't have lived through slavery.
Soon as you tell me when and where this 'Jedi theocracy' took place in the Star Wars universe and what they were 'theologizing'. Jedi have never worshipped the Force nor claimed that anyone should.
Apparently you forgot about the New Sith Wars. Jedi took over the Republic and ran it as a strictly Light-Side state where any Dark-Sider is banished and declared anathema.
My brother in Christ, Kreia did not say that in the game. That was an illusion created by the Sith tomb on Korriban.
It's still the truth. An apathetic regime will eventually die, because nobody will pay heed or loyalty to it. Hence why the Republic died; one half of the galaxy seceded from it to form their own state, and the other half allowed it to die and be replaced by an autocracy, because anything is better than utter chaos.
We taking philosophy lessons from Dark Side phantasms now?
Well, it's the truth. Sometimes even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Among the corpos you were screaming are corrupt a second ago.
I was only talking about hypotheticals. But either way, the Republic giving corporations autonomy destroys their authority.
If the corpos were evil, they can plot against the Republic with impunity within their territories because the Republic practically surrendered control. Even if the people in those worlds are loyal to the Republic, they'll have to shut their mouths because the corpos can kill them at any time.
If the corpos were good, as in they actually did their job to provide for the people jobs and economic security, the people in those territories would feel more sympathy for the corpos than for a government that does nothing but collect tax money. So if the corpos want to secede, the people will go with them.
Okay, now you're just fucking around.
Actually, no. People who signed up for the Empire witnessed how fucked up and disorganized the Old Republic was, and it was an easy sell for Palpatine to promise them a better government. Trillions upon trillions of people signed on, hoping that the Empire would fix what the Republic can't.
TL;DR the Republic is so fucked up that Space Hitler managed to lure many logical, smart, and well-intentioned people into serving his Empire because the Republic was just that bad.
And it seems that @LORD IMPERATOR and @Pentex have located a crucial flaw with the Jedi, albeit from opposite angles: they serve two masters, and inevitably wind up tangled in contradiction when their duty to the Force (or their philosophy, depending on your spin) and their duty to the Republic contradict.
One cannot serve two masters, God and Mammon. The Jedi eventually chose to serve Mammon, ie. the worldly Senators, since we know from AOTC that their connection to the Force was weakening, which means their connection to the Force was beginning to wane. And as Kenobi said, their loyalty was to the Republic, to Democracy, he doesn't say that their loyalty is to the Will of the Force. But as he uttered those words, the very same democracy he bent the knee to crowned his generation's greatest Jedi-killer as their new Emperor. Which goes to show that he, and the Jedi Order as a whole, chose the wrong master.
Historically, militant religious orders have operated with a great deal of autonomy. They may have some big picture loyalty to some higher temporal authority, but in the day to day operation they function as de facto micronations- they set their own agendas based on their ideology, and they certainly aren't going yo be doing dogsbody work like resolving tax disputes. OFC that raises the question as to why the Jedi value the Republic ad such- unless there's something I missed, there's nothing in their philosophy that favors one giant unwieldy galactic government over any other configuration of power.
The closest I've been able to gleam is from SWTOR, where the Jedi Knight or the Jedi Consular says something about how the Republic preserves countless civilizations within its embrace. But the official Lucasian reason from the movies was that they swore allegiance to democracy, as Kenobi stated. Such writing is a relic from a bygone age when we all thought that democracy automatically meant good, hence why all the good guys swore allegiance to democracies or defended it.
In reality, a militant religious order would either maintain its own Ordenstaat, or order-state, like the Teutonic Knights, or swear allegiance to a religious authority, like how some Catholic religious orders swore allegiance to the Papacy. If the Jedi Order were any bit realistic at all, they'd swear their allegiance to the Jedi High Council, and not to the Republic, especially given how worldly and blind to the Force the Republic leadership is. They'd have their own Ordenstaat, probably in Tython or Dantooine, and they'd probably have representation in the Republic Senate as a member world, or be completely independent of the Republic altogether.
