L.J. Writes

You know, since you made some thinly-veiled Star Wars references, I'm going to go full on Star Wars. The entire premise of Luke's arc in RotJ is that it is okay to have Darkness inside of you, so long as you don't act on it. The Jedi ideal of denying every bad thought and emotion lest it make you Dark was what created Vader at least as much as Palpatine's grooming. Luke learns to accept that part of himself while simultaneously deciding to do and be better than his worst impulses. Current fandom thought/desire policing is just as toxic as Jedi philosophy in part because of it's reactionary, bullying bullshit, but also because it's essentially created fandom Sith with the apologists.