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So, you know, maybe institute term limits instead of going full fascism. Star Wars is so unrealis...oh.
The Jedi council are unelected folk (from a religious sect) just doing things bcs they can. Like kidnapping all force-sensitive children.
They are like the Church in the middle ages with a private army, public funding, more powerful than most state officials, not subject to state laws, and not disclosing their affairs or motives publicly.
I think the word kidnapping is doing some heavy lifting here. Aren't the kids there by choice?
Those 3-4 year olds making those heavy decisions...
Their parents willingly give the children into their care not unlike Catholic or Buddhist monasteries raising children given to them.
Only the kids are guaranteed to have a good life, the best education in the galaxy, have all their physical needs met, get to learn FUCKING SPACE MAGIC, and serve as important guardians of a galactic republic who don't even have to do cop stuff, unlike what the kind of idiot that accuses them of kidnapping children might say despite A CORE PLOT POINT of Phantom Menace being that the MOST REBELLIOUS JEDI MASTER WON'T EVEN STEAL A SLAVE CHILD
Whose choice? The kids? Because we all know kids aren’t easily tricked. By their parents? If Anikin’s mom is any indicator, she was effectively lied to and filled with unverifiable promises by a stranger she just met who certainly wasn’t using their current situation as a means to appeal to her emotions about her wanting a better life for her son.
For more evidence to your point, this is a major plot point of The Acolyte.
The Jedi going after the twins because they're force sensitive while they keep saying it's the right thing to do!
Not really. And this isn't something "Disney canon" either, as this was established well before Disney, when Lucas still had creative control:
The Jedi, in their archives, keep a list of force-sensitive children. The extra-powerful ones, ones that can already manipulate the force at an infant stage, are kept on a well guarded holochron in the deepest part of their archives.
Jedi observe these infants. They visit the family's of these infants. The parents are told there will be a day that they'll come for their kids. Then, when they're old enough (but not too old) the kids get taken away from their parents and start training at the nearest temple (or the main one).
I haven't heard of Jedi forcibly taking children away, but Jedi can be very... convincing, so "on paper" these kids are there by choice. These stories were explored in The Clone Wars. One of the earlier seasons. Though it didn't go into specifics.
A child cannot consent to be taken away from their family like that.
Its abduction, the Jedi suck shit and abduct child to be children soldiers and enslave sentient robots.
This is why literally all adopted children are victims of human trafficking
Isn't the new show just canon saying they forced them/the jedi had to bring them in bcs of the threat they would become sith?
Also nobody went & rescue Vaders parents, they just bought a child slave (if he would work for them that is), and neither the planetary royalty nor the galactic Jedi order didn't have the funds to buy two parent slaves (or help the planet for that matter).