Repeating, Liberty’s crusade explains that Kerrigan expected Arturus to have information unknown to others to justify the move. and much depended that Kerrigan will believe that Arturus had a more significant(putting wild examples like the mind control of the government or that the infestation already lay under the city) justification than to make an omelette you have to break some eggs
Wishful thinking is not an excuse. Especially when trying to justify participation in a Genocide.
Lets be real. Kerrigan wasnt participating in the genocide. She had no ability to affect things in either direction by that point. The protoss and zerg were fighting all over the planet’s surface and her squad was deliberately undermanned. She was on the ground because, so far as she knew, the protoss were just a legitimate a target as the zerg and she wanted to sort out her thoughts away from Mengsk and Raynor while she decided what to do next.
I’m sure the guards in the concentration camps had no ability to stop the Holocaust. We’re still prosecuting them to this day.
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Well he is right that She couldn’t do anything when she was left on Tarsonis. Suicide? She was going to die, she thought.
Thats not the same thing and you know it.
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She could simply not attack the Protoss and let them engage the Zergs. While they’re slaughtering eachother they at least aren’t attacking the Terrans with the same intensity. By engaging the Protoss she lifts pressure on the Zergs who can then focus on the Terrans.
Ur, it is the same thing in your argument, you’re claiming that Kerrigan wasn’t engaged in the Tarsonis Genocide because she did not play a decisive role in it, which IRL was disproved by the justice system.
Would be a great plan, but Mengsk is a derp 
No, she didnt play a roll in it at all. She didnt call the zerg, her efforts had no effect on their ability to attack the planet (the protoss were not notably hampered from attacking the zerg except in her immediate vicinity, and that didnt last very long), and in the end she actually gets completely neutralized and the zerg still kill all the confederates even with the protoss engaging them. The holocaust guards meanwhile were actively perpetrating atrocities, or directly enabling them.
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Aside of, y’know having the mission to protect the Zerg hives so that the Confederates would not escape, aka allowing the killers to do their job. That’s definitively an enablor role.
Yeah, and if she was actually affecting the protoss in some way, or actually enabling the zerg, who werent actually being hampered by the protoss, i might buy it.
Genocide is not defined by the effect, but the intent, a random concentration guard had little to no impact on the Extermination industry, but is still prosecuted because he still had the intent (or at least knew their superior’s intent) of exterminating people. In Kerrigan’s case, she knew what was the intent of the mission and carried it out, thus making her complicit in the Genocide even if her non-presence may not have affected the outcome.
Let’s get this straight, before becoming Zerg Kerrigan wasn’t the best, but still fine.
She trusted Mengsk and he betrayed her.
Then, Kerrigan gained power and her self-control just got vanished by infection, so she just went funky as she wanted to gain full control. (Amon did participate in it as well).
Theres no indication at that point that the protoss were not just as hostile as the zerg. As far as she’s concerned, theyre a legitimate enemy that she has every right to fight. Or do you think your average german soldier is also complicit because by fighting in the army he was actively protecting the people who were actually committing atrocities?
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Ignoring the fact that Tassadar did work with Raynor on Antiga Prime against the Zerg, that does not change the fact that the intent of her mission was to protect the Zerg Hives so that the Confederates would be destroyed, not because the Protoss were a threat to humanity.
You realize that the “Clean Wehrmacht” theory has been debunked several times by now ?
Thats non-canon. The mission was removed and even in Liberty’s Crusade Raynor was never contacted and the SoK never directly coordinated with the Templar.
So? KERRIGAN is going down to deal with the protoss so that they can focus their attention on the zerg and come up with a course of action. She flat out tells Raynor that she isnt there because she feels compelled to follow Mengsk.
The Magistrate, Jimmity and Kerrigan are all part of Mengsk inner circle. Even unwittingly they are all complicit. That’s a big part of the reason ep 1 works so well, Mengsk gets to give his big victory speech at the end and the player is left knowing that’s it’s entirely our fault.
Yeah. We lose even as players.
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As in the trials between the N a z i s, the nuances make the difference, soldier and guard were treated according to their involvement and their treatment of prisoners. for example Franz Wunsch was savedby the tesitmonium of two prisoners and the lack of evidence of more than a single violent murder (there is a historical wink of change of personality similar to Kerrigan by the influence of people,( of course without applying an alien infection), but that fits the effect in Kerrigan of the presence or lack of people in HotS).
The differences are sustainable. Kerrigan participated in the use of emitting psi, only that antiga prime indicated by her as a military objective and in itself already condemned to the Zerg invasion.
She refused to participate in similar operations. The psi emitting operations in -Tarsonis were carried out by other ghosts from the alpha squad, who were also abandoned and her protest towards these methods implies one of the reasons why she was executed by Mengs, showing moral QoB does not show and regrets on HotS in Char
That Jedi and Palpatine they were complicit … they were not betrayed, there is no moral innocence but it does not imply complicity
If the leader uses the resources to buy drugs and is not an accomplice, the bifurcation and conflicts prior to the fall of Tarsonis demonstrate that Raynor, Liberty and Kerrigan were manipulated and the separation of the movement confirms that they are not part of this.Arcturus fears he won’t control Kerrigan after altercation in his office
The QoB book does mention the alliance, so this part of the mission is canon.
The intent of the mission was flat out told by Mengsk : prevent the Confederates from escaping. Kerrigan knew this, that’s all that matters, going into denial does not absolve anyone.
I’m not arguing that she put the emitters on Tarsonis. I’m talking about New Gettysburg, where Mengsk gave her the order to protect the Zergs in order for the Confederates to be slaughtered, and she carried that order, making her an enablor in the Genocide. Not to mention that she isn’t some mere soldier, she’s second in-command, which further aggraviate her responsability.