Dagenspear said:
It was specifically said he’d helped the empire to hunt down and destroy the Jedi. Did you think he had no hand in the genocide at all?
My mention of genocide was in reference to the destruction of Alderaan, which you mentioned in your post. I didn’t have the extermination of the Jedi in mind, but I can see how one could think of it in that way.
But even so: hunting down and killing extremely dangerous combatants who are well trained, armed, and capable of fighting back is much less despicable than destroying an entire civilian population (as in the case of the destruction of Alderaan) or murdering defenseless young children.
At least to my moral sensibilities (as someone who’s read Anscombe). YMMV!