Quote Originally Posted by warty goblin View Post
The tricky part, one which the films do not explain particularly well, is that the Jedi are not opposed to emotions. What the Jedi philosophy delivers is not emotionlessness, but emotional liberation. You can, as a Jedi, search your feelings, because you correctly perceive and recognize them. Anakin, when he falls, cannot search his feelings because he has no space between himself and his emotion. He's a toddler having a tantrum, the only thing that exists is that he isn't getting a cookie.
I get what you are saying, but then again the Jedi code literally begins "...There is no emotion, there is peace."

Maybe my problem is an application of show don't tell. They tell us that the Empire is evil and the Rebels are good, and we are supposed to take them at face value. But when we actually here evidence or philosophy, we are supposed to doubt it and disregard it as unreliable narrators.



Quote Originally Posted by warty goblin View Post
Of course you do, the Sith way is supposed to look easy and attractive! And RPGs are pretty much self indulgence machines anyway - you are literally supposed to be protagonist of reality - it's a natural fit.
Maybe my problem is too much White Wolf. All of the classic World of Darkness games are about being the young passionate rebel fighting against the old logical conformist system (and looking dark and edgy while doing it!).