Tiptup said:
TheBoost said:
Do you turn on "Cops" and see some wife-beater and say "Love leads to wifebeating, what a screwed up message."

Cops doesn't have a clear authority figure like Yoda telling kids that loving attachment is bad. If George had Yoda teach that because he wanted to show that the Jedi were corrupt, then that's okay, but it confuses his moral message to have the top good guy saying something like that.

Yoda never said that Anakin needed to stop loving anyone. He said he needed to be willing to let go. Attachment, possesion, these things are forbidden.

Anakin doesn't go bad for love. He doesn't even go bad to save Padme's life in any clear way (it's not like a special medicine is being kept from him in the Jedi Temple). He goes bad in order to achieve power to alter the natural order of things because he's unwilling to let go of his attachments. His hubris is what leads to his evil actions.

Yoda was right. Anakin needed to be willing to let go. Yoda is so right that Anakin is even the one who caused her to die. Yoda was right when he told Luke not to go to Cloud City, but Luke did it because he was afraid to lose the people he loved.

On the Death Star in ROTJ, Luke also wanted to protect the people he loved, but he was unwilling to give into hate and anger in order to achieve the power to do it. It was Luke's compassion and surrender of power that lead to Vader's redemption.

Love wasn't the problem. Luke loved and he was okay. It was Anakin's fear and obsessive attachment that lead to a need for power and control.