[Chancellor Palpatine]

Your conscience wouldn't allow it - it is easy to tolerate political and legal persecution of non-adherents and heretics from the distance of centuries, but you couldn't do it or watch it done in practice.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Why not? I've been quite happy to watch the "persecution" of common criminals being caught and slapped about by the citizenry (myself included), or the police.

You are saying I'd have been "troubled" by watching people be exiled to Persia for heresy? Why? It was their choice. If they wanted, they could choose to make a profession of faith.

You should stick to speaking for yourself.