# Star Wars, they should really try to breed out force sensitivity **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526 "2013-02-27T16:25:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/1 "2013-02-27T16:25:22Z")
Seriously has anyone in that universe ever noticed that every so often there get to be enough force sensitives and then they split into two groups and have a war? They should really try eliminating them altogether, seems like it would be best for everyone involved. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/2 "2013-02-27T16:31:42Z")
I heard they invented a midichlorian vaccine, but it wasn’t very popular because it was giving the younglings autism. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/3 "2013-02-27T16:49:39Z")
> [@](#): > > I heard they invented a midichlorian vaccine, but it wasn’t very popular because it was giving the younglings autism. Popular or not, it was administered to everyone; I’m quite sure of it. Why, I remember back when folks came around mistakenly thinking my perfectly ordinary kids hadn’t gotten their shots yet! Oh, it is to laugh! Naturally, they realized their mistake upon hearing that _these aren’t the kids you’re looking for._ ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/4 "2013-02-27T16:51:07Z")
Means of Power (such as The Force) become incredibly desirable to families and organizations that want to obtain and maintain Power. Hence if you don’t have it, you try to get it. And the whole Jedi-Sith thing is too Black and White for the real world. It would be a tool for incredible levels of factionalism in a universe that large and diverse, many of whom wouldn’t give a crap about either the Jedi or the Sith other than in how they affect their own little fiefdoms. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/5 "2013-02-27T17:02:00Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Means of Power (such as The Force) become incredibly desirable to families and organizations that want to obtain and maintain Power. Hence if you don’t have it, you try to get it. > > And the whole Jedi-Sith thing is too Black and White for the real world. It would be a tool for incredible levels of factionalism in a universe that large and diverse, many of whom wouldn’t give a crap about either the Jedi or the Sith other than in how they affect their own little fiefdoms. How many force sensitives were “in the wild” so to speak in the prequel era? The movie seems to suggest that at least in republic space any that are born are snatched up to be raised as jedi, how voluntary that is arguable. But outside the republic that doesn’t happen, makes you wonder what happens there, like is force sensitivity a desirable thing in a spouse? ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/6 "2013-02-27T17:24:40Z")
I wonder what sort of responses you’d get if you replaced the words “Force sensitive” with “Religious” in the OP, and posted it in Great Debates? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lurker\_Above](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/7 "2013-02-27T17:26:43Z")
> [@grude](#): > > But outside the republic that doesn’t happen, makes you wonder what happens there, like is force sensitivity a desirable thing in a spouse? /Handwave ‘You find me unbelievably sexy and wish to join my harem’ Yes, once you meet them you _will_ find force sensitivity a desirable thing in a spouse 🆒. In fact, I’d think that both force sensitivity and force-suggestibility would be selected for, absent any organizations like the jedi culling the most force sensitive from the breeding population. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/8 "2013-02-27T17:27:00Z")
> [@grude](#): > > How many force sensitives were “in the wild” so to speak in the prequel era? The movie seems to suggest that at least in republic space any that are born are snatched up to be raised as jedi By sending Droid Owls? “_You’ve been accepted to Yoda’s School of Jedi!_” ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/9 "2013-02-27T17:34:24Z")
more apt would be something genetic… like gingers… ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/10 "2013-02-27T17:38:45Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > By sending Droid Owls? > > “_You’ve been accepted to Yoda’s School of Jedi!_” I believe you mean, “Accepted to Yoda’s school of Jedi you have been!” ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/11 "2013-02-27T18:07:15Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Seriously has anyone in that universe ever noticed that every so often there get to be enough force sensitives and then they split into two groups and have a war? They should really try eliminating them altogether, seems like it would be best for everyone involved. Is that a sneak-peak into the new trilogy?Are you JJ? ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/12 "2013-02-27T18:08:57Z")
> [@The\_Lurker\_Above](#): > > /Handwave ‘You find me unbelievably sexy and wish to join my harem’ > > Yes, once you meet them you _will_ find force sensitivity a desirable thing in a spouse 🆒. > > In fact, I’d think that both force sensitivity and force-suggestibility would be selected for, absent any organizations like the jedi culling the most force sensitive from the breeding population. The Jedi took all of them but did cull their less sensitive people. They didn’t get to be actual Jedi “Knights” (didn’t pass the trials), but used their lesser skills for less Force related things. Luke changed all that though. No kidnapping kids (and no there was no choice in the matter before then); he went out in search of adults. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-they-should-really-try-to-breed-out-force-sensitivity/651526/13 "2013-02-27T21:48:56Z")
Doesn’t the whole prohibition on Jedi marrying pretty much work towards breeding them out anyway? Well, other than Ki Adi Mundi who got a special dispensation to go back to his planet and breed like a rabbit.