Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
The Jedi are fundamentally against forming personal attatchments, but they do bear children here and there. Ki Adi Mundi for example has several children with several wives on his home planet, because there is such a low % of men compared to women and everyone has to "do their part" so to speak, or something like that. If a member of the Jedi Council can do that, then why can't any Jedi? Is Ki Adi Mundi expected to have no attacment to his offspring? Is that why Mannequin had to be so secretive?
Now with the Midichlorian concept, it's not that they are fundamentally different from the other beings in the galaxy, they just have an easier time tapping into the Force.
If they have an easier time tapping into the Force due to a hereditary trait then it does mean that they are fundamentally different from the other beings in the galaxy. The Jedi are fundamentally against forming personal attatchments, but they do bear children here and there. Ki Adi Mundi for example has several children with several wives on his home planet, because there is such a low % of men compared to women and everyone has to "do their part" so to speak, or something like that. If a member of the Jedi Council can do that, then why can't any Jedi? Is Ki Adi Mundi expected to have no attacment to his offspring? Is that why Mannequin had to be so secretive?
Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Also there is the idea that hereditary traits could skip a generation as well, resulting in a non Jedi candidate to bear a jedi candidate. You're referring to exactly the same thing as the recessive traits I was talking about and, as I said, I don't think the evidence supports it.Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
If anything, I think the Midichlorian concept serves to make the Force -less- hereditary. Before Luke was strong in the force simply because he was Anakin's son. Now it's more specifically, because he (like his father) had a strong predisposition to use the Force.
These two sentances both mean the same thing - that it is hereditary.Originally posted by: Go-Mer-TonicAlso there is the idea that hereditary traits could skip a generation as well, resulting in a non Jedi candidate to bear a jedi candidate. You're referring to exactly the same thing as the recessive traits I was talking about and, as I said, I don't think the evidence supports it.Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
If anything, I think the Midichlorian concept serves to make the Force -less- hereditary. Before Luke was strong in the force simply because he was Anakin's son. Now it's more specifically, because he (like his father) had a strong predisposition to use the Force.
Now with the Midichlorian concept, it's not that they are fundamentally different from the other beings in the galaxy, they just have an easier time tapping into the Force.