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Date: 2006-05-13 22:54:37

Comment:

What we know of the Jedi code:

Jedi are to attack only in defense.

Jedi are not to use force on innocents.

That said, did Luke start down the path to the Dark Side when he destroyed the Death Star?

Points to ponder:

Does defense mean attacking him or attacking friends as well? Even when that friend (the rebels on Yavin) are on the offensive themselves?

Was everybody on the Death Star "evil"? That would be like saying all Germans were Nazis, or all Muslims are Taliban, isn't it? Especially when you consider the dominance of the Empire, the fear it ruled by and the tyranny it caused. I would imagine many people were on the base because they were drafted and/or forced to be there. Were they people to be defended against, or people forced into the service who had no desire to fire a weapon. Techs and computer operators for instance.

Wouldn't that make Luke a mass murderer?

Also, to think about in that case, if anyone's ever read Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (and a reminder, this is from a time when Lucas considered the books canonized), there's a story about a stormtrooper who realizes the problems with the Empire and decides to fight the fight from within. There wasn't one sympathetic person on the Death Star?

Or perhaps when he nearly shoots Jabba in the palace, when he's not being attacked. Or as well the Gormenean guard, who doesn't attack, but takes a defensive position himself... Only to be choked (don't know if to death though) by Luke. That's using the force to attack... The guards didn't attack, they set up an obsticle, which Luke uses the force against in attack.