I've always preferred the interpretation that the force is all "the light side" and to bring balance is to remove the negativity-the dark side. Obviously everything in the prequels ruined that, but in the original trilogy, it made sense that balance was achieved by eliminating the dark side. The idea that you must always have an evil force to balance out the good seams silly. Otherwise the good wouldn't be good, it would inherently need to be negative in some ways to "need" to be balanced. Stupid prequels.
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