"The benefit of being as old as Master Yoda is, I believe," he agrees with a smile. "He understands most people better than they will ever understand themselves."
He's quiet for a moment, his palm pressed against Klaus's chest and then he says, "Qui-Gon was a very smart man. Rebellious, maybe, but in ways I've begun to understand more and more as I get older. He saw the flaws in the Jedi order, in their attempts to look at everything as a binary. Black or white. Good or bad. There was no space for grey, which he believed was a mistake."
And the longer Obi-Wan thinks on it and thinks on the ways in which he personally failed Anakin, the more he understands what Qui-Gon meant.
"It ignores that people sometimes do bad things for good reasons," he continues thoughtfully. "Or good things for bad reasons. There's little nuance and that is no way for anyone to properly learn how to resist the dark side. How can we resist something we don't understand because we haven't been allowed to understand it?"
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He's quiet for a moment, his palm pressed against Klaus's chest and then he says, "Qui-Gon was a very smart man. Rebellious, maybe, but in ways I've begun to understand more and more as I get older. He saw the flaws in the Jedi order, in their attempts to look at everything as a binary. Black or white. Good or bad. There was no space for grey, which he believed was a mistake."
And the longer Obi-Wan thinks on it and thinks on the ways in which he personally failed Anakin, the more he understands what Qui-Gon meant.
"It ignores that people sometimes do bad things for good reasons," he continues thoughtfully. "Or good things for bad reasons. There's little nuance and that is no way for anyone to properly learn how to resist the dark side. How can we resist something we don't understand because we haven't been allowed to understand it?"