The proximate emotion that leads to Anakin’s fall is love. Even if we ignore the love-of-mother --> Tusken raiders massacre, the romance between Anakin and Padme is expressly forbidden because of the risk of Anakin turning evil.
If any strong emotion has such a strong risk of turning evil that the emotion must be forbidden, we aren’t really talking about a moral philosophy that bears any resemblance to one worth trying to implement in real humans.
I’m not saying that strong emotions don’t have a risk of going overboard—they obviously do. But the risk is maybe in the 10% range. It certainly isn’t in the >90% range.
Immediately. Where did this come from?
That’s probably an overstatement by Brin. But evil (Sith-ness) is highly likely from feeling strong emotions (in-universe), and that’s not representative of the way things work in the real world. It’s roughly parallels the false idea that we rationalists want to remove emotions from human experience.
Drawing from Attack of the Clones:
The proximate emotion that leads to Anakin’s fall is love. Even if we ignore the love-of-mother --> Tusken raiders massacre, the romance between Anakin and Padme is expressly forbidden because of the risk of Anakin turning evil.
If any strong emotion has such a strong risk of turning evil that the emotion must be forbidden, we aren’t really talking about a moral philosophy that bears any resemblance to one worth trying to implement in real humans.
I’m not saying that strong emotions don’t have a risk of going overboard—they obviously do. But the risk is maybe in the 10% range. It certainly isn’t in the >90% range.
That’s probably an overstatement by Brin. But evil (Sith-ness) is highly likely from feeling strong emotions (in-universe), and that’s not representative of the way things work in the real world. It’s roughly parallels the false idea that we rationalists want to remove emotions from human experience.