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[survivalthroughhate]

"This is Maul. State your business."

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[survivalthroughhate]

The Jedi are normally taken to the temple as infants or a little older. The Nightbrothers derisively refer to them as babystealers for that. It prevents them from forming attachments to their birth families. They are taught to think only of the group as a whole, not of the individual. Something about being selfless and looking out for the galaxy as a whole. [Maul's never paid that much attention to their philosophy and only knows the little of what he's already talking about.] Skywalker was taken away from his mother when he was much older, so he clearly wasn't able to be indoctrinated with that lesson. He forms connections with people as individuals, not everyone as a whole. [The same way Maul himself does in a much more twisted way.] Apparently the Jedi never noticed because they live in an echo chamber and it never crossed any of their minds that one of them might think differently than the rest. And you can see what troubles it has caused.

[Maul shakes his head.]

That I cannot answer. I don't think Obi-Wan understands either. For us, the opposite side holds no appeal, and there is nothing that would give either of us an advantage or allow us to become more content by giving into it. For Skywalker, both sides hold something he wants but something he does not as well. He cannot have both but neither can he turn away from either. And so he remains torn.