"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"..?

[Blue_Horizon]

Do you remember this Star Wars quote from episode 3?..
Obi Wan, after being told by the recently-turned-evil Anakin that “if he’s not with [him], he is [his] enemy”, replies that “Only Sith (basically the most evil people in the galaxy) deal in absolutes”

However…Jesus says pretty much the same thing as Anakin does in thr Gospels… (Matthew 12:30)

So…what? Should I consider it offensive or just
…look at it within the movie’s context (and overall common sense that black and white morality is almost always bad)?

There is such a thing as human wisdom.
The saying is not dissimilar to Aristotle, and later Aquinas, who both agreed virtue is the mean between two extremes - one being too much the other being too little.

 

[Paganus]

Do you remember this Star Wars quote from episode 3?..
Obi Wan, after being told by the recently-turned-evil Anakin that “if he’s not with [him], he is [his] enemy”, replies that “Only Sith (basically the most evil people in the galaxy) deal in absolutes”

However…Jesus says pretty much the same thing as Anakin does in thr Gospels… (Matthew 12:30)

So…what? Should I consider it offensive or just
…look at it within the movie’s context (and overall common sense that black and white morality is almost always bad)?

That’s the problem with Star Wars philosophy - there is no unqualified, absolute Good. There is absolute Evil (Sith) and Neutral (Jedi), but no Good faction. It’s kind of like Hollywood.

 

[gracepoole]

Or you could liken Anakin to someone else from US history when making this pronouncement…

Start at 7:06 here: youtube.com/watch?v=597CbVSFR3Y&list=PLH9rWywwjjEn1bPkBsaCOLJSGCvznFqk5&index=5

 

[Kay_Cee]

Has nobody else realized that the statement itself is an absolute? Only a Sith deals in absolutes? That means, if the statement is true, the person saying it is a Sith.

I caught that the first time I heard it at my local movie theatre.