[ SECRET POST #5945 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5945 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So this is gonna be kind of jumble thoughts but I think it shows how flawed Padme was in a way because she took Anakin, a learner still, at his word on how things would work instead of ever researching anything about the Jedi Order herself.

There were Jedi who were married - Master Mundi is the one I remember off the top of my head who had a special exception done due I think his planet having extremely low birth rates. I always took that to mean there was an avenue to petition if one was willing to argue good reason why they can marry and not fail at their jobs due to attachment.

Do I think Anakin would have been granted it at that time? No; he wasn't even a knight yet and saying he's special due to being so strong in the force would have been a very weak argument.

[philstar22]

Mundi was a very rare exception, and even though he was married and had kids he didn't care for any of them in a way that came even remotely close to an attachment. In fact, he had no reaction at all when some of his family was killed.

[(Anonymous)]

But, I mean, the whole structure of "Jedi should not marry because they must avoid attachment" is stupid and wrong in the first place, and I don't think much blame can attach to Padme for violating it. Whether there was some kind of alternate route around it doesn't much matter to me. The Jedi should not have had that proviso at all.

[(Anonymous)]

But they did have it, and as a government official Padme is held to a higher standard than the rest of society. She has to go above and beyond in obeying the law because of the privilege of her position. If she thought it was wrong, then she should have had the debate and relationship in public so that policy could have been challenged appropriately. It would show the people that nobody is above the law, and that it isn't okay to break it no matter your position.

[(Anonymous)]

You can argue that it would be a better political course of action for her to try to make the change; maybe that's so.

But I still don't think it's morally blameworthy for her to disobey the law.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it is very morally blame worthy for a politician to disobey the law, in even down right immoral for a politician to disobey what they consider a bad law without publicly trying to change it. In fact that sort of political selfserving hypocrisy is fairly close to the top of my list of political misbehavior.

[(Anonymous)]

Rules for thee, but not for me.

[(Anonymous)]

My understanding was that this was an ethical prohibition placed by the Jedi Order on its members, not a law per se? So even if you want to argue that there's a moral commitment to obey even irrational laws for rule of law reasons, I don't think it would apply here.