“Death is a natural part of life”
And in this sentence, yoda has proven nobody is meant to live as long as he has, or at least can’t do so without developing some serious apathetic tendencies
Because of his long lifespan, Yoda has seen countless people die, probably people who were close to him.
In order to keep himself from going to the dark side, he has become numb to such events and has convinced himself that such partings are “natural”
Not that he doesn’t have a point, (if a little hypocritical coming from the immortal frog man), but his defenses have not only caused him to impose such thinking on the order as a whole, but has him believing that everyone has the same thought process and reaction to death as he does, never realizing how distressing and traumatic said events can be.
Now, was Anakin wrong in helping sidious and killing an entire religious community? Yes! Definitely! Did Yoda help anything? Nope! Nothing he does in the prequel era has ever helped, this line of thinking drove his former padawan dooku into the hands of sidious and then also Anakin, it also irreparably damaged the Jedi’s relationships with the republic and allowed palatine to enact his plan and turn the republic against the Jedi.
And yoda knows this, in the empire strikes back and return of the Jedi, Yoda is painfully aware his actions at least partially contributed to the destruction of the Jedi and the republic. That is why he trains Luke, as Luke is (as far as yoda knows) the last Jedi and thus, his last chance to atone, to correct his mistakes. But as shown with his suggestion to abandon Han and Leia to Vader, even then he couldn’t fully leave this mindset behind.
He also allows himself to wallow in his guilt and depression after his defeat by sidious, even though the rebellion desperately needs someone like him, even if he can’t defeat the emperor on his first try, he can still do some major damage to the empire, and to Vader. He allowed himself to choose his emotions over his duty to the galaxy, something he has scolded other Jedi for countless times.
In short. Immortality causes immorality
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