Quote Originally Posted by Ascended View Post
No differing philosophies means no new ideas and the stagnation of the mind. So not only do the Jedi contribute to the cultural stagnation of the galaxy by making sure no species/race develop their own relationship to the Force, the whole group is slowly sliding towards some dark choices (arguably starting with agreeing to serve a specific government, way back when). So they gotta go too.
There were many differing phhilosopies, they were just not shown in the films.
In the ongoing Star Wars High Republic comic book series you can see a lot of them for example.
In the Clone Wars animated serie there are the Nightsisters of Dathomir.