Some will always be necessary, yes. To erase all pain would be to erase life itself. A concept that does not appeal to me.

[To others, however...it is a solution that grows more appealing every day, deep within shadowed dens scattered throughout the galaxy. Thrawn tips his attention back over his shoulder, pulling away from his work at last.]

But to choose a crippled system of leadership over one with reach and motivation is to allow those wars to live again. Ignorance over balance, Rey, is at its core a poison.