I dont want to argue about this with you but i have to state that your logic in this is absolutely black and white and very one sided.
Deathcrow - No argument here. Its just a discussion. Don't sweat it. Especially when you are 100% correct. That's EXACTLY what I'm going for BLACK and WHITE... RIGHT and WRONG. This is just a starting point of the story: The Glorious Old Republic where the Jedi were defenders of the peace, advisors, or ambassadors. I am going for EXTREMELY idealistic here (a "more civilized age"). Then the Clone Wars start. Ep1 shows the Jedi as idealistic and heroic all the way up to the final act. The Jedi help plan the attacks to take back the planets taken by the Mandalorian Clones. When Obiwan tells Anakin that the Jedi will not go into battle, no one is shocked (it is widely known that the Jedi are not soldiers) except Anakin. How can the Jedi say that they stand for justice if they abandon Bail now? Anakin persuades Obiwan to go against his Jedi beliefs and goes with him and Bail.
When he says something like "anger is bad" another Jedi might argue "Be careful with anger, but it can be a good tool to do the right thing when its necessary".In the world are all kinds of religions and most of them forbid murder, but most of them also legitimize it in many cases or even have heroes who kill their enemies.
This is where my idea of the Sith comes from. At the end of EP2, the Sith that fights Obiwan even tells him that Obiwan's and Anakin's actions at the end of EP1 inspired several Jedi to take action ... LEADING to the Sith. This makes them a natural extension of the Jedi. The Jedi themselves are unwilling to change in a changing world (their ideology forbids it) but the Sith become a natural evolution in these darkening times. Put simply: I want the audience to start feeling distanced from the Jedi and identify with the Sith. With fear and death all around, who would you want on your side?
I haven't posted my EP3 synopsis yet, so maybe that's why some of my ideas don't seem to work for you. You don't know what I am ultimately trying to say in the NPT. I really want characters to have to make difficult decisions. Decide to stick to their beliefs or do what they feel they must even if it goes against everything they've ever known.
I guess in the end...
What I really want to show is that Luke was the Jedi who could find the compromise (or balance if you will) and be the Jedi YOU spoke of. My Jedi are like fundamentalists, unswerving, and during the golden age of the republic it worked very well. As the times change some are forced to break those fundamentals and as often happens the pendulum swings 180 (there lies the dark side). And in the end...there is Luke.
I could go on about this forever, but as i said, i dont want to argue about this. So i will drop this matter after this posts. Discussions about spiritualism/morals/religion tend to get too emotional and i dont want to hurt anyones feelings here...
Again, don't sweat it. I like discussion. Sometimes, I just have a hard time explaining my ideas. I would rather talk than type. That's why I'm glad someone like Chainsaw would write the script for this thing. Does any of this help or do you think the idea is just too out there?