Is it acceptable to use the enemy's means to defeat them?

Is It Acceptable to Use the Enemy’s Means to Defeat Them?

I have been a long-time fan of Star Wars. I first watched Star Wars on TV with my father when I was a child. I’ve been inspired by watching all the recent series, especially while watching Andor Season 1, I had the following question:

“Is it acceptable to use the enemy’s means to defeat them?”

So far, the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars has always been depicted as the good guys. However, in Andor Season 1, a leader who provokes the Empire to commit civilian massacres to grow the Rebel Alliance is introduced, and it was evaluated as “well expressing the light and dark of the Rebellion.”

This question also came to mind when I was studying information security. I wondered if it would be acceptable to share the security vulnerabilities I found with hostile countries and induce hacking to, in turn, develop the domestic information security industry. Security is so important, but it is one of the fields that gets neglected if entrepreneurs do not invest, so I thought a kind of shock therapy was necessary to strengthen security.

Of course, it is not appropriate ethically, legally, or for the greater good. And it is depicted as such in the Star Wars series. Such Machiavellian solutions have clear pros and cons in modern society. Above all, they are inefficient.

Now, being in the startup industry, I have come to accept the fact that there are no enemies. When you constantly ponder what people genuinely want and the problems that must be solved, you eventually realize the reciprocity of human relationships. Experiencing how much you give is how much you get back often erases the worry about defeating enemies. Maintaining inefficient adversarial relationships directly contradicts the economic effects of reciprocity.