Jedi Glorifying Violence?
Dec. 15th, 2015 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThe Star Wars profile-picture generator that makes it look like you have a lightsaber is nifty, but, and maybe I'm becoming a pacifist in my old age, it feels like it's missing the point of the Jedi order. Violence as a last resort, right? Sometimes not even then, depending on the situation? It keeps making me think of this great bit of writing by Ferrett Steinmetz about how Yoda *should* have been portrayed in the prequels. He didn't need to be a fighter at all; as he said himself, wars do not make one great.
It's kind of like advertising the work that, I don't know, UN peacekeepers or something, do by making flashy posters where they're all standing around with guns out. There's some cognitive dissonance for me.
It's kind of like advertising the work that, I don't know, UN peacekeepers or something, do by making flashy posters where they're all standing around with guns out. There's some cognitive dissonance for me.
