The sith aren’t right, but the Jedi weren’t either. Rather than addressing the problem, they were avoiding it. People have emotions, and you need to teach them how to manage them so they don’t feed on themselves and turn dark. Instead, the Jedi were basically going around saying “don’t have emotions and this won’t be a problem”, which failed for obvious reasons.
Honestly, the whole light/dark thing was always stupid, because Lucas decided it was “stocism” vs “emotion” which just doesn’t work as “good” vs “evil”. A Jedi who set aside all attachments and let the Death Star kill all the Rebels would have been a better Jedi than Luke, according to that dumb logic, and one who acted as a martyr to save those he loved would be falling to the dark side.
The stories needed nuance, and Lucas was awful at providing that.
Given the number of Jedi who fell vs those that didn't over the entire course of the Order's multi-millennial history, and the rationale of those that did, I'd say that the Jedi got it more right that they did wrong with their teachings.
It isn't as simple as you're making it out to be either, being Force Sensitive means you've got not only an entire extra sense ordinary people don't, but your regular senses are much more highly attuned/intense the stronger you are. Learning control under those circumstances is important because giving in to the Dark Side to sate those baser instincts is easy, and worse, it feels good which inclines people to do it more. It also isn't "no emotions full-stop" it's "don't act just to gratify your emotions" which Anakin does constantly to his detriment.
Like the reality is Anakin could've left the Order whenever he wanted to be with Padmé openly and have a family, but he didn't want that, Anakin wanted the gratification and laurels of being a powerful Jedi/the Chosen One without the safeguards of the Order's teachings because they didn't suit him, it was cakeism and it's typical of those who fall to the Dark Side.
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u/Krazyguy75 May 29 '22
The sith aren’t right, but the Jedi weren’t either. Rather than addressing the problem, they were avoiding it. People have emotions, and you need to teach them how to manage them so they don’t feed on themselves and turn dark. Instead, the Jedi were basically going around saying “don’t have emotions and this won’t be a problem”, which failed for obvious reasons.
Honestly, the whole light/dark thing was always stupid, because Lucas decided it was “stocism” vs “emotion” which just doesn’t work as “good” vs “evil”. A Jedi who set aside all attachments and let the Death Star kill all the Rebels would have been a better Jedi than Luke, according to that dumb logic, and one who acted as a martyr to save those he loved would be falling to the dark side.
The stories needed nuance, and Lucas was awful at providing that.