#JediDefender

But with that established, let's actually look at what they do say

The Jedi are always saying is "let go of your feelings" (or something to that effect)

An important distinction, as none of that ever says something to the effect of "never feel anything", quite the opposite in fact, as to let go of an emotion you need to experience it first

Would you look at this: All the popular Anti Jedi arguments in one poll! And each option is worse than the last.

is a take that fundamentally misunderstands both Luke as a character and the entire point behind Star Wars and the Jedi religion.

Luke didn't act out of attachment. If he did he would have killed Palpatine and Vader in a desperate attempt to save his friends.

Let's actually compare this to mister attachment aka Anakin, shall we.

If Anakin was in a position where some guy (for example Dooku) was responsible for Padmé, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Rex etc. being in current life threatening danger, he would have killed that man and anyone who stood in his way. If there was another guy claiming to be his father that might have thrown him off for a bit but in pure rage and terror of what might happen to the people he loves he would have 10000% killed him, father or not (he literally tries to kill his surrogate father / brother out of attachment and greed and later succeeds IN THE MOVIES).

Luke however chooses AGAINST acting out of attachment. He doesn't let his fear for his loved ones control him. The literal moment he crashes out and eventually almost kills Vader is when Vader mentions Leia. His attachment to her led him to react with rage in a desperate attempt to protect her but then he realizes that that's WRONG. That he's playing into Palpatine's hands and giving himself over to the dark side, so he stops. He chooses not to become what Anakin let himself be turned into.

Luke's motivation for saving Vader is not attachment - it's compassion.

Attachment is to act on behalf of yourself. Attachment is choosing your own feelings over what the people you love would want. Attachment is sacrificing everything your wife stood for, choking her to unconsciousness because she doesn't react the way you want her to and trying to kill your own brother out of greed and jealousy. Attachment is selfish love - love that is about YOU and not the people around you.

Compassion is SELFESS love. Compassion is choosing others over yourself. Compassion is valuing the ideals and wants of the people you love - not just wanting to keep them by your side at all cost. Compassion is tossing away your lightsaber and letting yourself get tortured and almost killed because you REFUSE to act out of attachment and let anyone be hurt but yourself. Compassion is also to sacrifice yourself to save your child even though it gains you neither a better future nor his staying in your life.

Like never once in the movies did I see a jedi being a colonizer and an executioner? Oh wait I do know one jedi! Anakin Skywalker! Like that one time he murdered an entire tribe (including the women and children) for the act of murdering his mother (a casualty in the ongoing war between the moisture farmers and the tuskens, in the AOTC novelization Cliegg talks how they haven't had their annual tusken massacre in while in order to stop the sand people encroaching on their land).

(Wow! Speciesm against Jawas as well? Who could have thought that?)

But in a dramatic irony, the tuskens are the one who act first, kidnapping Shmi and torturing her.

Or that one time Anakin executed Dooku without trial even though he literally disarmed the Count, making him unable to fight back. When he helped Palpatine murder Mace or when he massacred an entire Order because of visions that he caused them to happen?

But I'm pretty sure they talk about that one time Mace Windu killed Jango Fett in an ongoing battle, or when Mace was about to kill Palpatine, even though Mace went first with the intent to arrest him for treason against the Republic, with Sidious resisting arrest and trying really hard to murder 4 jedi.

Fine let's also discuss jedi actions during the clone wars show that induce such weird takes:

Season 1: They decide to listen to the Lurmen's wishes to leave them alone, until they find out about the Genocide Machine 3000 that the Separatists invented and they were morally obligated to warn the Lurmen about this contraption. In the end the Lurmens and Jedi fight together to repel the invasion. Ryloth was a rescue operation that freed the planet from the droid army. The Orto Plutania episodes were clearly the Jedi advising against colonizing the native tribe that the Pantorants wanted murdered.

Season 2: Geonosis was a Separatist aligned planet that was complicit in the making of more droid factories. The Jedi were there to stop such plans. In the Voyage of Temptation episode, Anakin executes Tal Merrik without trial (even though he was actually justified in this situation).

Season 3: Anakin and Obi-Wan were able to enter and leave Dathomir peacefully without scandal. Nothing else happens.

Season 4: The Clone Army and the Jedi are clearly on Mon Calamari at the request of the Mon Cala. In the end both the Quarren and the Mon Cala were able to settle aside the differences and live together from then on with the help of the Republic. While Umbara was an invasion, you can't decide to switch sides in war without repercussion. Zygerria was a rescue mission to retrieve the people of Kyros from being enslaved. In the Deception Arc, Anakin was intending to murder Obi-Wan masquerading as Rako Hardeen (without trial!).

Season 5: The Republic was on Onderon at the request of Lux Bonteri. The Council didn't even want to send people to Onderon initially but in the end decided to help the people.

Season 6: The Queen of Bardotta didn't want the Jedi at first but acknowledged Jar-Jar's wish in having Mace Windu with him to help.

Recently I saw someone say that Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side because he wanted the Clone Wars to end, now we're going to set aside just how wrong that is, because that's a whole other discussion

Now to clarify, I should say that Anakin didn't want the Clone Wars to end DEEP DOWN, I'm talking in his heart of hearts, his innermost desire, on the surface he wanted it to end, but the most shameful part of his heart loved it

Why?

Simply put, the war was the best thing to ever happen to Anakin, for 3 main reasons: