Bro, he genocided two separate groups of people just in the movies and the Jedi literally gain actionable spiritual guidance from the collective soul of all life.
They’re flawed and paying a price for complacency and distance from current events, not guilty of “indoctrination just as bad as the Sith from a certain point of view durr”
The Sith are the fucking Star Wars Nazis while the Jedi’s main moral flaw is killing Nazis on sight it’s not some subtle and nuanced situation.
Especially after it becomes canon that the Sith are effectively all the same person and its chosen successor.
If fucking Space Hitler and his favorite general/blood boy are immortal parasites on God Itself I’m sorry but you’re allowed to be biased against them.
Obi-Wan’s argument being rhetorically flawed doesn’t stop it from being factually correct.
I’m not saying Anakin is right. I’m saying he understands that Obi-Wan doesn’t have the same perspective. Like I said, none of it is explored in the movies, but Anakin grew up around Jedi like Dooku, Pong Krell, Mace Windu, and Bariss Offee. He saw how the Jedi betrayed his padawan Ashoka. He felt his mother’s suffering and was prohibited from saving her by the council. He was born a slave, rescued by a Jedi who cheated in a wager. Obi Wan possesses the physical high ground, but the moral high ground is much shakier from Anakin’s point of view durr.
Anakin fell to the dark side. He chose to be merciless and violent. He had no empathy for sand people or jedi children. He is not righteous. But he didn’t fall from high atop the mountain of morality. He was never all in on the Jedi code, the asceticism, the rejection of attachments and emotions, or the obedience to the wisdom of the council.
Bro, he genocided two separate groups of people just in the movies and the Jedi literally gain actionable spiritual guidance from the collective soul of all life.
They’re flawed and paying a price for complacency and distance from current events, not guilty of “indoctrination just as bad as the Sith from a certain point of view durr”
The Sith are the fucking Star Wars Nazis while the Jedi’s main moral flaw is killing Nazis on sight it’s not some subtle and nuanced situation.
Especially after it becomes canon that the Sith are effectively all the same person and its chosen successor.
If fucking Space Hitler and his favorite general/blood boy are immortal parasites on God Itself I’m sorry but you’re allowed to be biased against them.
Obi-Wan’s argument being rhetorically flawed doesn’t stop it from being factually correct.
I’m not saying Anakin is right. I’m saying he understands that Obi-Wan doesn’t have the same perspective. Like I said, none of it is explored in the movies, but Anakin grew up around Jedi like Dooku, Pong Krell, Mace Windu, and Bariss Offee. He saw how the Jedi betrayed his padawan Ashoka. He felt his mother’s suffering and was prohibited from saving her by the council. He was born a slave, rescued by a Jedi who cheated in a wager. Obi Wan possesses the physical high ground, but the moral high ground is much shakier from Anakin’s point of view durr.
Anakin fell to the dark side. He chose to be merciless and violent. He had no empathy for sand people or jedi children. He is not righteous. But he didn’t fall from high atop the mountain of morality. He was never all in on the Jedi code, the asceticism, the rejection of attachments and emotions, or the obedience to the wisdom of the council.