Like a dozen Sith spirits appear behind the back of excited researcher.
It's actually really dangerous. If you go in hard enough you may very well never come out. If you are pretty weak in the Force you'll just die. If you are really strong you'll meditate forever until you become a Force Nexus.
That was, for me personally, the number one stupidest thing I've ever read in a Star Wars book/comic. Losing your one trained force ability once puberty hits? Just...
You know this would be the perfect way for the Old Sith to get back at the Jedi. They start setting up Cults/Study Groups (depending on the Sith) that the Jedi can't go against. I can see Imperious setting up an Order of Scholars while the Wrath sets up a Warrior Lodge. The Jedi come in only to find themselves in opposition to the local government because the two groups are well liked.
Of course they're well liked, they offer Free Lifetime Membership!
Depending on the timeline they aren't even the "worst outcome", like just imagine if someone finds a holocrom of Vitate or re-liniks with whatever happened to Zakuul, like I could see the Jedi teaming up with Palpy and the with ghosts to let that part of history stay well buried
There's a worse option, to be honest.
I meant more from an ethical perspective. One could argue that the damage the Dark Side does to people who overuse it is fundamentally worse than the damage that can be caused by more mundane sources, and the fact that you can't really disarm a force user non-lethally the way you can someone using more conventional weaponry. Having your own force users can help with the issue of it being a perfectly concealed weapon, but the disarmament is still basically a no go unless you start breeding Ysalamiri.
I certainly wouldn't agree with any such arguments, especially when the spice trade exists. As for disarming, maybe not, but containment is perfectly doable, see all those times in the movies they have jedi strung up inside force field projectors or locked in prison cells they can't break out of. You can't disarm a wookie of it's ability to tear the arms off a human, but that doesn't make Wookies a restricted species.
i mean, a slave revolt isn't a Bad thing.
It is for the slavers.
Slavers don't count as people. Making a living off of sentient/sapient suffering comes at the cost of your rights as a sentient/sapient being.
Thankfully you need to blow up a heavily populated planet to achieve such a result. Otherwise there would be much more Nihiluses out there. There were enough insane Dark Siders who wouldn't have minded the personality loss.
So...
Let me put it this way. You are a tiny scattered group traveling around doing some good deeds and passing on your knowledge master to apprentice where you can be mostly sure that the student won'y abuse those lessons.
It's really a question of if souls exist. If souls are real, corrupting them could be considered worse than the merely physical corruption of drugs.
Considering that the Dark Side includes a lot more directly destructive techniques, I'm not totally sure how much that applies to dark side users. Even aside from the fact that they usually do break out eventually.
Even if they do, the evidence of the Anakin force ghost at the end of the original trilogy strongly suggests that even decades operating as a sith lord doesn't "corrupt souls"
Directly destructive techniques that A, MC is not teaching the galaxy, B, aren't really that much better than light side techniques. Force lightning is not significantly more useful in breaking down a heavy wall than telekinesis, etc, C main character escapes are plot devices, but lots of times, (see movie 2 for a great example) the characters don't escape until outside forces change the conditions. Kenobi didn't escape that containment field, he got taken out to the arena and chained to a pillar, and then escaped that.
I mean, that's kinda easy to solve with the amount of ghosts and the several "soul" magic/force techniques around the galaxy
Widespread option in fandom that droids are sentient/sapient, is not supported by canon, as far i know. They are very advanced VI, nothing more.
Why exactly did you cut the "Slavers don't count as people" and take the statement out of context? Because that's not what the discussion was about.
