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Is the dark side stronger than the light side?
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Posted 2015-02-15, 06:03 PM
It seems clear to me that the dark side of the force is stronger than the light side of the force. Consider the fights in the movies where light side characters ostensibly defeat dark side characters. To my count this happens only a few times:

1.) Luke defeats Darth Vader in Episode VI
2.) Obi-Wan defeats Darth Maul in Episode I.
3.) Count Dooku retreats from Yoda in Episode II.
4.) Anakin defeats Count Dooku in Epsiode III.
5.) Mace Windu defeats Darth Sidious in Episode III.
6.) Obi-Wan defeats Darth Vader in Episode III.

In the first case Luke was only able to get an upper hand on Vader after he gave in to his anger, which was an influence of the dark side. The argument can further be made that Vader wasn't trying to defeat Luke at all, he and the Emperor were simply trying to get him to give in to his anger to get him to join the dark side.

In the second case, Darth Maul had just finished defeating Qui-Gon Jinn, and was likely exhausted from that fight. Furthermore, here again we see the light side prevailing only after Obi-wan gives in to his anger and emotion from witnessing the death of his former master and mentor.

In the fourth case Dooku loses to Anakin only after Anakin submits to his anger. The case has also been made that Anakin's victory over Dooku was a ploy, and that Dooku was toying with Anakin much the same way Vader did to Luke in Epsiode VI in order to see if he could be turned to the dark side. This idea is bolstered by a few facts: the ease with which Dooku defeated Obi-Wan in both of their fights who later goes on to defeat Anakin in a one-on-one matchup, the ease with which Anakin is defeated in the previous bout between Anakin and Dooku, and by the pleasure on Sidious' face at the sight of Anakin defeating, and ultimately killing Dooku.

In the fifth case, Darth Sidious eviscerated three Jedi with relative ease before finally succumbing to Windu after a long fight. Sidious was a career politician, and probably not used to lightsaber duels, whereas Mace Windu was considered one of, if not the, best swordsman in the entire Jedi order. The case can also be made that Sidious orchestrated this whole series of events and lost intentionally in order to lure Anakin to the dark side.

So we're left with only two pure wins for the light-side in head-to-head duels: Yoda's defeat of Dooku and Obi-Wan's defeat of Vader. In both cases the Sith were fighting far more experienced Jedi.

Finally, lets look at a few other facts. In a head-to-head match between the grandmaster of the Jedi order and the master of the Sith, Sidious defeats Yoda. Consider the fact that a group which never consisted of more than two being at any given time took down the entire Jedi order.

And this doesn't even consider lower-tiered canon about the Sith's power. For instance Darth Plagueis could create life from the force itself, and Darth Sidious was able to create wormholes capable of destroying entire planets. To my knowledge, the Jedi were never able to perform feats of that magnitude.

So if the Jedi lost the vast majority of their fights to the Sith, where not even one who was conceived by the force could reliably bring down a Sith, and the grandmaster of the Jedi was defeated by a Sith, along with the Sith performing feats that were orders of magnitude beyond anything the Jedi demonstrated that they were capable of doing, how is it that we can deny that the Sith were more powerful. Please enlighten me.
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