between the "if droids could think none of us would be there" line and how his attitude towards artoo, obi-wan is really embodying an old man who reads the evil ai clickbait fearmongering articles in space daily mail & thinks every personal problem faced by The Youth can be boiled down to too much screen time. i dont think that line gets enough attention even bc what a thing to say. and so casually too. obi-wan by that point still shared quarters with anakin (known creator of sentient electric-based lifeforms) and he still believed fully in the concept of our robotic overlords. he was certain that the only thing keeping droids from evil was the lack of intelligence yet unconcerned with the notion. 1) the prejudice had to come from somewhere, theres a "anakins evil toaster" shaped hole in the narrative & im embracing that explanation wholeheartedly and 2) he must have felt so smug when the clone wars started and his problems were indeed suddenly evil droids
ok theres actually an alternative explanation, bear with me here. the force exists in all living things yadda yadda and this obviously excludes anything mechanical. ergo, to obi-wan, droids have no soul and are therefore ontologically inclined towards evil & disorder. he keeps that same mentality regarding vader and his borgification so that actually fits. hes some kind of a bio-essentialist and its probably not an unpopular belief within the jedi bc since when has obi-wan ever been a radical in anything except anakin-apologism. which is again philosophically fascinating bc it implies that hed be a lot more forgiving towards evil in the shape of the corruption of a human soul than the lack of that human element to begin with. and it actually makes some sense when you consider that jedi rely on force signatures of other beings as a natural 6th sense and droids are essentially a blind spot in their perception of the world. imagine conversing with something intelligent that you can touch and hear but not see, for example. itd be terrifying.
anyway 10 yo anakin crying weeping asking if the mouse droid hed frankensteined into a puddle of molten metal in his attempt to gift it with rocket blasters like a benevolent god has passed into the force and 20-something yo obi-wan calmly explains that no, actually the mouse droid was an abomination in the force and went straight to hell. theologically speaking
