That needs a full PR campaign, and maybe they can actually do it now instead of having Palpatine's cronies obstructing them at every possible point in the process.

All right, it's weird not to have been ordered to stop being angry yet. By someone other than Padme. 

...Yes. The Supreme Chancellor's emergency powers make him commander-in-chief, there's nothing anyone could have done to stop him mobilising the clones. You do need to be able to act fast under new threats sometimes. She was fleeing for her life at the time, she couldn't stop it. ...And there is the point that the clones already existed and were bred for war and know nothing else. It wouldn't actually be a kindness to them, to refuse to employ them, even if that wouldn't be the end of the Republic. 

Most of it is him darkening the Force because he's the apex of the Sith and by far the greatest master of the Force ever to live, but, you know, the tremendous cognitive dissonance of using a slave army to defend the Republic that enslaved it - in the Council's name, no less - really doesn't hurt his efforts!

...Some things it is right to be angry about.  The thing is, is that - anger is a fire.  And fires, if you're not careful, burn your house down.  It's not wrong to be angry, in and of itself.  It's wrong to let that anger drive you to cruelty - for the blaze to consume you - or to hopeless despair - to snuff out the chance for things to change beneath cynicism.

...The clones need a true and honest choice to leave available to them, one that is open to them at any time, one they won't be blamed for.  War may be all they were taught, but it is not all they can learn.  It is not all they can want.

Hey! Technically they do swear them in! They swear to serve the Republic, armies don't just let you wander off! But... well, I mean, it's never actually happened, the rate of defective clones is very low and none of them have happened to be flawed in that exact way, but, well, they wouldn't force them to serve if one of them declined to swear in when they're told to. After biological and psychological maturity, even!

The rate of defective clones, you say.

...And further fucking more, "biological and psychological maturity" is a meaningless standard in such a controlled environment as you're undoubtedly using!

Don't worry! Under the Palpatine administration the Office of Applied Legal Xenoethics was formally created, to perform essential oversight and review over the ancient and creaking and thoroughly outmoded body of existing legal and ethical theory on the subject, a new broom, a clean sweep, some fresh air, and after only a brief delay in committee (over the question of their arguably marginal remit and the possibility of further vertical integration) and rather longer delay in Senatorial procedure (over the question of whether or not ongoing work on the clone question could be justified, since in a technical sense the relevant question was not xenoethics, the application of ethical principles to various species - the issue clearly was not humans, even Mandalorian humans, in general, nor clones per se - but specifically ethics as applied to these particular clones under these particular circumstances, which arguably refuted the relevance of the Office entirely and left them with general legal ethics as applied to humanoids) it determined that clones at the age of 114 months had achieved all of the standard biomarkers and psychometric indicators selected by the Office to prove possession of the theoretical power of informed consent under the Office's definition. 

Defective clones are very rare! Naturally they cannot consent to anything, under current provisional Office procedure, including being discharged from the GAR; the resulting administrative inefficiency, whereby no option is permissible and therefore they all are, has been referred to the Office of Administrative Efficiency.

...Deep breaths.  Deep breaths.  You can't just kill them, it wouldn't fix the problem...

The clones weren't even ten years old.  It's small comfort that that wasn't less, but there must have already been another crime done to the clones, to get them to a point where the idea wouldn't have been so obviously horrible.

To say nothing of the "all 'defective' clones are very definitely slaves impressed into a military" problem, and furthermore because this was a fucking Sith involved she bets that part of the standard for not being defective was swearing to serve...

She stops sparking, eventually.

Don't worry! The safety and efficacy of accelerated-growth cloning is Settled Science according to all the most respectable journals! Only the kind of stupid person who'd say something that will obviously get them blacklisted from any future career opportunities has ever publicly disagreed, and who'd listen to someone as stupid and unpopular as that?

Ten years is a responsible high-quality standard, even though faster times are theoretically possible. The joint and nerve issues take, oh, at least a decade to set in, and the progressive progeria will probably obviate the issue before leftover units become an economic burden. Sensory-neurone engineering keeps the neuralgia problem at bay and improves mechanical-load tissue-hardening timeframes and improves combat performance, and state-of-the-art custom memory flashes actually install combat drills as near-instinct-level trauma responses! They are beautifully engineered units! 

Not that the Republic as a whole can be said to know any details. These are proprietary Kaminoan engineering patents and military secrets, repeating them is a capital offence. 

Kamino's security is honestly quite good, considering.  They keep all their data on premises and those premises are locked down enough to prevent their slave armies from revolting.

The Republic's, though?  Ahahahahaha.

They.  Did.  What.

This is all but the cruelty of a typical Sith alchemist.

At least this time she is not precluded from fixing it.

That is an area of concern, yes. Hence the quite extreme lockdown. And the neurally-hardwired failsafes and the intense conditioning and the neural-level recruitment of baseline humanoid kin- and social-bonding circuits for loyalty. 

They are not cruel. Pain is largely inefficient in humans and deployed only where optimal for training. Genetic modification for psychiatric disease resistance has its place. Cascading biological failure is projected to terminate most units in time to minimise potential palliative care costs, which they suppose also reduces total suffering. 

The cruelty is when you create disposable people to begin with.

"You... look like you can sense something."

"...If the Republic does not, I am going to be declaring war against Kamino for their crimes against sapient rights."