Why Lightning is dark side ?

[dprog1995]

It is really a dumb idea imo.

It is completely cool for the jedis to kill stormtroopers by pushing them off the ledge,chocking them or slicing them with Lightsbers. But it is EVIL to use force lightning.

Even a Jedi character in Star Wars Jedi Starfighter game used force lightning and no Jedi had any issues with that.

[Twoflower]

I've always considered "light" and "dark" sides to purely be doctrines of the religious war between jedi and sith. Both sides are manipulating an unthinking unfeeling part of nature and the universe. It's like applying morality to the air that military planes use to fly or the water that warships sail on.

I have a vague recollection of there being some star wars lore that touches on this topic, but I don't know where I could find it again.

If the topic you want to talk about is the hypocrisy of the Jedi... well, there's no shortage of people who'd agree with you, both in the star wars universe and IRL.

Personally I consider the iconic Jedi mind control to be one of the most morally questionably uses of the force that exists.

[Kashui_32]

Force lightning harnesses emotions such as anger and rage in order to be lethal, without those “dark side” emotions it would merely be a magic taser. Plo Koon used this form of lightning and called it “Force Judgement”.

[dprog1995]

Originally posted by King:

Force lightning harnesses emotions such as anger and rage in order to be lethal, without those “dark side” emotions it would merely be a magic taser. Plo Koon used this form of lightning and called it “Force Judgement”.

Dooku didn't look like to have any anger when he used lightning though.

[フォルテ]

Originally posted by Иятохихакитар:

I've always considered "light" and "dark" sides to purely be doctrines of the religious war between jedi and sith. Both sides are manipulating an unthinking unfeeling part of nature and the universe. It's like applying morality to the air that military planes use to fly or the water that warships sail on.

I have a vague recollection of there being some star wars lore that touches on this topic, but I don't know where I could find it again.

If the topic you want to talk about is the hypocrisy of the Jedi... well, there's no shortage of people who'd agree with you, both in the star wars universe and IRL.

Personally I consider the iconic Jedi mind control to be one of the most morally questionably uses of the force that exists.

I didn't know Kreia moved to Russia.

[Wasa]

The lore reason is that you twist the force(the living force) to create lightning(something completely unnatural).

[Oguretz]

As far as I know, it's cause force lightning is too devastating and hard to use with pinpoint accuracy.
But c'mon, during the training section of this game you're told "Remember, it's not neccessarily that some powers are evil and some are good. It's about how you use these powers". This phrase and the fact that Kyle Katarn uses force ligtning in combat is more than enough to justify the use of force lighting for a "Good" character

[Shwarts]

as far as the games go, dark side is offensive, and light side is defensive. personally, i would rather be good at giving hits than taking them. i suppose kyle said there is no bad force power, just the user.

[dprog1995]

Originally posted by Shwarts:

as far as the games go, dark side is offensive, and light side is defensive. personally, i would rather be good at giving hits than taking them. i suppose kyle said there is no bad force power, just the user.

Originally posted by Oguretz:

As far as I know, it's cause force lightning is too devastating and hard to use with pinpoint accuracy.
But c'mon, during the training section of this game you're told "Remember, it's not neccessarily that some powers are evil and some are good. It's about how you use these powers". This phrase and the fact that Kyle Katarn uses force ligtning in combat is more than enough to justify the use of force lighting for a "Good" character

Unfortunately Jedi Knight games were also kinda inconsistent about it.

In Jedi Knight 1 if you get any of the "Dark Side" powers such as lightning you will increase the chances of getting the dark side ending.(There was also this that Kyle loses his dark side powers if you go to the light side ending path.)

[JizzJamboree]

In-universe politics.

People are much less receptive to Jedi that use "dark" force powers such as choke and lightning, so during the Clone Wars, techniques like this were frowned upon.