The whole “you find a kid alone, you adopt them” things the Mandalorians do makes a lot more sense in the context of one of the Star Wars universe’s underlying inspirations being the Wild West. It’s also a lot less War Crimes Coded.
Because there were a lot of orphans in the Wild West! People died like, all the time, of a lot of shit. And when you found a kid with no parents you generally had three options:
1. Find the kid a place to stay.
2. Take care of the kid yourself.
3. Leave the kid to probably fucking die on its own.
And that’s kind of the options the Armourer presents to Din! He’s told to return the kid to his people or take care of the kid, because leaving him to die isn’t a moral options and won’t be presented as one.
But like… how many Mandos out on jobs are just running into a fuck load of orphans all the time because the brutality of the Outer Rim - where slavers, pirates, and the universe at large seem keen on killing people - not because they killed the kid’s parents but because circumstances in the Outer Rim are brutal and a lot of kids are left to grow up alone?
I feel like the idea that Mandalorians are just pluckin’ kids off of the battlefields where they murdered the kids’ families isn’t what we’re presented with in canon and generally not how it would go. Idk it bothers me that this seems to be the idea parts of the fandom have latched on to, instead of the much more reasonable idea of there just being a lot of fucking orphans in Star Wars.
