[C Of K]

Originally Posted by manephelien

Looks like no matter what you do, you'll end up with disgruntled Jedi who are attracted by the dark side.

Gantoris certainly proved this. He lived with his people for quite a long time before Luke took him in for training. He saw that going with Luke would mean his destruction, and went anyway.

The Old Republic clearly showed that forcing Jedi to leave their families behind was not a good choice, given that it was too late to go back if they didn't integrate well into the Jedi order after all.

Most of the jedi who didn't qualify as knights were given other "lesser" jobs. I don't think many of them were known for rebelling. It was mainly the ones that passed onto knighthood that caused the biggest problems, like Anakin, Dooku, and Sora Bolq.

Had Anakin lived his whole life with Shmi, he still would have fallen to the dark side. The entire galaxy was fooled by Palpatine, all the jedi and everyone else. Although I don't think it was too cool to take children away from their parents at such an early age, I don't think it would have made a difference concerning the end result of the war.

On the more technical side of things, I don't think letting jedi have personal lives has too much to do with balancing the force, mainly because after becoming a jedi, Luke was considering his own peronal life in "Truce at Bakura" long before TPM came out. Balancing the force was never an issue until TPM. I believe Luke was married before TPM, as well, so there wasn't much he, as their exemplar, could do except let his students have personal lives, too.

Light is only light as long as there is something dark to compare it with.

Possibly, but a dark jedi/sith lord is not always required for darkness to flourish. Consider the events of the Black Fleet Crisis and the Corellian Trilogy. There wasn't an evil force adept insight for those six books, but there was plenty of darkness.