# Star Wars: The entire Jedi Council were traitors.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-entire-jedi-council-were-traitors/498058>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 29, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-entire-jedi-council-were-traitors/498058 "2009-05-29T18:23:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-entire-jedi-council-were-traitors/498058/41 "2009-05-31T03:56:44Z")

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> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> How so? He didn’t realize the extent of the former’s influence over Anakin.

That, and when your order is pledged to keep peace and order in the galaxy, saying, “he’s too dangerous, so I’m going to kill him without a trial” seems just a teeeeny bit hypocritical.

-Joe

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**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-entire-jedi-council-were-traitors/498058/42 "2009-05-31T04:12:55Z")

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> [@Merijeek](#):
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> That, and when your order is pledged to keep peace and order in the galaxy, saying, “he’s too dangerous, so I’m going to kill him without a trial” seems just a teeeeny bit hypocritical.
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> -Joe

Yeah, Mace lost control there. Even Anakin was saying take him to trial.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-entire-jedi-council-were-traitors/498058/43 "2009-05-31T04:15:18Z")

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> [@Merijeek](#):
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> That, and when your order is pledged to keep peace and order in the galaxy, saying, “he’s too dangerous, so I’m going to kill him without a trial” seems just a teeeeny bit hypocritical.
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> -Joe

I think his point was, “We cannot get him out of here right now, we need to kill him IN SELF DEFENSE, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.” There’s no way you could have gotten him in hand long enough to subdue the guy and put him underguard. Hell, Yoda couldn’t even take the guy down. I think it was more, “kill or be killed.”

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**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-entire-jedi-council-were-traitors/498058/44 "2009-05-31T05:46:35Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> “Join me. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring \*\*order \*\*to the galaxy”
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> Which Republic figure said that, now? Order in itself is not necessarily a good thing.

Spoken like a true iconoclast.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-entire-jedi-council-were-traitors/498058/45 "2009-05-31T09:13:21Z")

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> [@mswas](#):
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> Spoken like a true iconoclast.

That’s me.

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