Originally Posted by
Sutekh
Yeah, healthy acceptance and control of one's feelings, rather than pretending they don't have them (and growing increasingly alienated from human concerns, too lost in their 'big picture' and 'greater good' to see the little people whose troubles they are ignoring, like how they left Anakin's mother to die in slavery, which had a lot to do with his eventual turn to the darkside, when they could have spent a coupla quatloo to bring her along to the Jedi temple and let her work in the kitchens or something!).
Even as a kid, watching Empire Strikes Back on the big screen, I felt like the whole Jedi philosophy (as expounded on by Yoda) was BS. Fear and anger and hate are not 'dark' emotions, they are, at times, utterly necessary. Fear is needed to keep people from doing dangerous things like handling vipers. Anger is necessary when bad things are happening and you need the motivation to stand up and shout and do something about them, instead of sit placidly by letting evil happen. 'Good' emotions like hope and love can also lead to terrible things, like people spending their social security checks on lottery tickets, or stalking someone who doesn't return their feelings (or remaining with someone who is terrible to them!). The whole 'these feelings are always bad' logic fails for me. Everything is fine in moderation, under appropriate circumstances. Some things it's utterly right to fear, or be angry about, or even to hate. Other times, too much hope or love or contentment can be bad.
Yoda's Jedi philosophy was garbage, IMO.
So yeah, I'd love to see some force users, not necessarily Jedi, who accepted their connections to the universe, but didn't, like the Sith, allow their emotions to control them and flip out all the time (cause they are even more obviously self-defeating and wrong as the Jedi!). Both factions go too far, in their respective directions. Jedi always avoid, Sith always confront. Circumstances require a person who can do both, as the situation calls for. You can't always win the game by always confronting, and never defending. You also can't reliably win by always reacting, and never going on the attack. Adaptation is needed.