[ SECRET POST #3335 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3335 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Red Dead Redemption, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)


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02. [repeat]


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03.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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04.
[One Direction, "What Makes You Beautiful"]


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06.
[Hanayome wa Motodanshi]


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07.
[Driver: San Francisco, Jun and Ayumu]


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08.
[Naruto]


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10.
[Ash Ketchum/Professor Oak]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think chastity was ever the issue so much as impartiality. 'Needs of the many', that sort of thing. The Jedi were aiming to love everyone equally, and to love no one thing enough to choose it over and to the detriment of everything else. That way, they could be relied on to channel the Force and make decisions that would benefit everyone, or at least the most people possible for any given situation, without personal attachment or bias. It became an issue of chastity because sex and romance, personal love between two/more people, creates an attachment that it's very difficult to be impartial about. It takes a particular sort of personality to be able to personally and passionately love somebody and still be able to sacrifice them if it becomes necessary for the overall good (*cough*Obi-wan*cough*), and rather than trying to winnow for those personalities it became easier over time for the organisation the Jedi had become to just forbid personal attachment in general. It was never that sex or romance were evil in and of themselves, it was just that most people wouldn't be able to have them and still be able to make the gutwrenching impartial decisions when it came to it, so it was easier to blanket-ban them and call it good.

Of course, there's any number of problems with large organisations with that kind of power running on those kind of generalisations. A life without attachment is a difficult ideal to achieve, and I rather suspect that a very large portion of the Jedi actually didn't. Whether it was people they got attached to, a-la Anakin, or the traditions themselves to the exclusion of case-by-case judgement, a-la a lot of the Council, I think quite a lot of them failed to realise their own attachments until they blew up rather spectacularly and in galaxy-wide fashion in their faces. Just banning attachment doesn't really help anyone to avoid it, especially if over time people just get caught up in the letter of the rules and forget what those rules were supposed to be aiming for in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a good comment and you should feel good. :D

[(Anonymous)]

Yessss this!!! You've perfectly described exactly what I've always believed about the Jedi.