(Technically the actual definition of "celibacy" is actually getting married, but it's a spectrum)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
This makes sense when you realise that the rule that requires Roman Catholic priests to be celibate is an administrative rule intended to prevent Church offices from being passed down in families, and nothing to do with religious purity (unlike celibacy for monks)
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Yeah I mean in-universe I feel like this is obviously the Jedi both wanting their members to have only one loyalty, to the Jedi Order, and to avoid the idea of "Jedi dynasties" within families Which all makes sense, especially with their history as an anti-Sith army
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk
**begins tearing out hair** if we accept that force power is passed down through bloodlines, and then the jedi aren't allowed to have children, AND the jedi collect all force-sensitive kids and make them jedi, doesn't this entail that they're breeding the force out of the galaxy?
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Replying to @perdricof @bazzalisk
That's a feature, not a bug In the big picture the Jedi serve the social function of being "containment" for Force users, their overall job is to minimize the effect the Force has on ordinary people's daily life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk
this feels like the big reveal at the end of a book 1 of an expanded universe trilogy, where we discover the heroes' light-side mentor is actually the villain and he wants to eliminate all knowledge of the force from the galaxy, for order
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Replying to @perdricof @bazzalisk
Well I mean to me Star Wars just generally makes more sense with the backstory from KotOR The galaxy was once ruled by tyrannical Dark Side Force users (the Rakatan Empire) whose cruelty and tyranny was boundless, and whose inevitable collapse led to even more suffering
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The ancient origins of the Jedi Order were an attempt to try to make sure this never happened again The purpose of Jedi Knights is to be a neutered version of Sith Lords who *take the place the Sith would have* in an earlier society
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The whole Jedi concept of "Light Side" and "Dark Side" is the ancient Jedi trying to identify all the psychological factors that led to the old magocracy going mad with power and purge them from themselves Like how the rebels against the Hand in Marvel are carried "the Chaste"
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Like how Pratchett describes magic as like nukes in Discworld The purpose of Unseen University is to create a monopoly on wizard magic, put it all in one place, and then lock it up and not use it
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Cf. the idea that the original Jedi planet and the original Jedi texts are in this inaccessible nowhere place on purpose, the original Jedi founders were trying to protect the world from themselves
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Interesting discussion would be whether or not that's practical or wise, since canonically the Force is an active instigative impetus throughout the universe and history, and it purposefully gives rise to antithesis when the jedi predominate or things become stagnant.
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Replying to @AmongtheFirs @arthur_affect and
So in effect, by actively minimizing or monopolizing all use of the force unto themselves, they are going against the existential reality of the universe, and only creating momentary dams of inaction until the next Sith comes around or the power is disrupted.
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