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Originally Posted by Wastedyouth
That's a low bar for deserving to die.
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Maybe, but Sith only deal in absolutes right.
And the Sith revenge is based on multiple Jedi perpetrated genocides on the Sith. Remember that the Sith were originally Jedi. They actually were Jedi that believed in studying all aspects of the force, and that the jedi denial of emotions and attachments was wrong.
Instead of saying no, the Jedi lauched a holy war, wiped out the Dark Jedi, and then banished the survivors to a fate worse then death.
Then the Dark Jedi found the world of the Sith, basically didn't conquer them but convinced them that they were gods.
Eventually the now Sith returned and attacked the Republic, lost and the Jedi followed them back to their homeworld, and instead of negotiating a surrendor of a beaten foe, convinced the Republic to wipe them all out, so it was a second act of butchery and genocide by the Jedi.
The Sith that escaped found another world and flourished building a new Empire. Then eventually returned to seize their home world on Korriban. And tried to conquor the Republic because they believed that the Republic was corrupt, and the Jedi needed to die. At some point that empire fell apart and the Jedi did another act of genocide.
Then a fallen Jedi refounded the Sith and other power hungry Jedi followed and we got another war between the force users that featured innocent civilians dying in the millions, the use of child soldiers by the Jedi, and the glorification of war by the Jedi Generals. This is when Darth Bane rose and founded the rule of 2. Wiped out what was left of the Sith and faded into the background with his apprentice and they enacted the grand plan of destroying the Jedi from the Shadows.
So what's the point of this, and why did the Jedi need to die?
The Jedi were not the enlightened beings of light that they thought they were. They caused the rise of the Sith because they were religious zealots. Perpetrated multiple acts of outright genocide, and believed that the battle between the Darkside and Lightside was not only a holy duty, but that the costs of it didn't matter.
The Sith were what they were, but the idea that they were pure evil is kind of wrong, and Palpatine pointed that out beatifully. The Jedi and Sith belive in the same thing, Peace, Justice and Order. But the Sith believe that the weak serve the strong, and the strong force users should rule for the betterment of the weak.
The Jedi believed in the same thing, they believed in the aquisition of power through knowledge and fought the dark side no matter the cost to the galaxy.
Add on that the Jedi were blind near the end because of their arrogance, once again eagerly waged a destructive war because they believed that the Sith were involved, and didn't understand their enemy, and yeah, they deserved to be wiped out.
And for a time Palpatine deliver exactly what the Sith promised. Peace, Justice and Order. When the Republic and Jedi returned to power we got what these chaos agents promised. Disorder, slavery, economic malaise and corruption.
By my view the Jedi are evil, that's what Anakin said, and he was kind of right. Because the Jedi don't care beyond their dogmatic view of the Galaxy, and everyone around them suffered.