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· 4 years ago
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Star Wars is full of this sort of thing when it comes to the force. We could either say it is complete nonsense with ploy convenient rules- or that it is very nuanced. For example- in ROTJ there was this big deal about Luke striking at Palpetine and or Vader in anger and how he’d join the dark side if he did. As though that one act would seal his fate. He did end up having an emotional outburst and fighting Vader- but he stopped himself before he murdered the guy. So the idea was flawed to start- the “grand plan” of palpetine to turn Luke amounted to an idea that if you crossed a line, you’d just keep pushing it further and crossing it as you went.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
But when palpetine attacked Luke- Vader killed him. And for it- he became “good” again in death. The nuance here is that Vader didn’t kill palpetine for revenge, anger, to gain power. He did it to defend his child. It was a “noble kill.” Now- how that act of decency balanced out a lifetime of murder and corruption- the killing of children and so forth- well... again- we are never fully aware of how the force works. Perhaps the message their is that true repentance and change is the path to salvation. Perhaps there is great significance in giving ones life for good- or perhaps there is some combination or something else entirely.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
But again- it’s nuanced and ambiguous. It would seem that the force functions on some system under which the circumstances and motivations- the emotions or reasons for taking a life are what is important and not so much that a life is taken. “Good” Jedi and people can kill- the reasons at that moment they make the decision just seem to need to be justified by the force.
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