Something that got me thinking the other day... Say you enroll a child in soccer, or theatre, or any extra-curricular activity. Said child enjoys it for a while, but soon tires of it and wants to move on to something else. What would you do? The answer is easy--take the child out of the program and put them in something else. If the child doesn't want to stay in the program, you can't force them to stay.
Not so with the Jedi. Surely there are some children in the Jedi Order who grow tired of training to be a Jedi, and yet a Jedi child simply can't leave the Order. The Masters wouldn't let them. Does anyone else think it's unfair that the Jedi Order would take children away from their families and force them into a program that they did not choose for themselves? And if that child grows weary of Jedi training, they are not allowed to leave ever, for the rest of their lives? Doesn't that seem a little... bleak? I suppose if you never know anything else other than the ways of being a Jedi it wouldn't seem so bad, but there are millions of people who grow up in a certain religion, only to leave it on their own accord when they realize it isn't for them. You'd think the same would happen with Jedi.
At least with Luke's Order, it seems that people are given a choice whether they choose to train as a Jedi. But even with Luke's Order, once you choose to train as a Jedi, you can't back out. One would think that you can't train someone to harness their abilities, only for them to back out and unleash their power against the galaxy. If they are going to train, they have to be committed to staying with the Order.
(Obviously this has been discussed many times, but O66 just reminded me of it all over again.)




















