Whoa! This is a question I never pondered about until this thread. Indeed, this would be a real test to humanity as civilization.
This war wasn't like the past wars fought on Earth. The enemy was as sneaky as it was powerful. Visser One had learned quite a bit about humans by the time the Yeerks made their move to conquer Earth.
So by the end of the war, there was still a significant number of voluntary controllers. And, conversely, some of those were betrayers of the Yeerks concurrently. Whatever happened to them post-war?!
Personally, I don't think those w
Some of those human KNEW what they were doing, yes, but I still see the voluntary controllers as people who were tricked or emotionally 'led' into becoming who they are. Regardless, if someone like, say, Mr.Tidwell, went to them voluntarily, the Yeerks still 'placed their 'hooks'' through their Sharing marketting and all these people gravitated to them.
My thoughts echo
anijen21's here.
I'd kind of hope after an ordeal like that, we'd just offer amnesty. Move forward, not back you know?
Even if they thought they were allying themselves, they were being sadly tricked. And the Justice system should give latitude to that. A kid that went to the Yeerks' cause, because his life was crappy and he felt he could make it worth something, is not really different to some of the Anis we love and cared. Is it?!
So I think these people deserve some sort of amnesty, too.