So, let the Empire go around blowing up planets without doing anything? I don't buy your "We are responsible for bad guys doing bad things". That's a totally bogus philosophy.

You don't believe the government is responsible for defending it's citizens? Really?

The republic is supposed to govern the galaxy, yet they don't notice someone hollowing out a fucking planet to build a superweapon, something that should be incredibly obvious.

Why should I root for the rebels to win, when their government has been shown to be so hopelessly incompetent that it could never be stable? If they beat the first order, some other group is just going to rise up, and they are going to go back to calling themselves 'rebels' while more planets are destroyed in the background.

If the Nazi's had won WW2, that wouldn't have made Great Britain the bad guys, lmao.

No, but if Britain let people acquire enriched uranium and build/detonate nuclear bombs within their borders, you might start to think you don't want these guys in charge.