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[Star Wars]are Clone Troopers (living during the Old Republic era) allowed to decide they want to leave the Army & do something else with their lives?

I kind of feel like the Old Republic wasn't that worth saving if they were totally cool with life time slavery.
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They weren't allowed to leave during the war - that's desertion and a capital offense. We see a deserter in TCW Season 2, though ultimately his brothers decide not to turn him in as he was happier away from the war with a wife and two children to take care of (they weren't his children, he married a widow with two young children).

They get shore leave and possibly pay, there are bars for the clones to go when they're off duty.

What the Republic would have done with them after the war is a good question, but we know that the Empire basically tossed them out with little to no reparations after a couple years, replacing them with recruits.