Didn’t think I’d find myself agreeing with Count Dooku but here I am.
Okay but he’s honestly 100% right.
This is, incidentally, part of how the Jedi screwed themselves over with Anakin.
TPM Anakin had a firm moral compass with only a slight tendency toward us-vs.-them (or rather the tendency was mitigated by Anakin viewing people as an Us until proven otherwise). And one of the core tenet was “people should help each other”
And then he gets to the Jedi, whose life mission is supposed to be helping people and they won’t help the slaves.
Situations like that are complicated, they probably say. And the galaxy is too big and the Jedi too few for them to ever be able to help everyone who needs it.He needs to accept that. Moreover, the Jedi go were the Force (or more accurately the Senate) tells them to go, to go on a mission because of personal feelings is bad, no matter how righteous the cause may seem.
Worse than that, when push comes to shove and they need access to Outer Rim trade routes, they ally themselves with the Hutts.
Now they’re not happy about it, but it’s a war, sacrifices need to be made, they probably say. The need of the many outweighs the need of the few.
(They probably never realize that they are just as prone to the slippery slop where “need of many outweighs the need of the few” becomes “need of the powerful outweighs the need of the powerless” or “need of the Us outweighs the need of the Them” as the rest of the galaxy)
and so on and so forth, that situation repeated over and over, for 13 years. One day, Anakin will understand. He’s young now, and impatient, impulsive and too emotional, but when he can be objective he will understand the Council.
Well, Darth Vader understands.