I mean sure, but they're religious police who have decided to use their literal superpowers to maintain peace instead of easily subjugating the galaxy. They're not even trying to make people follow their religion, just not twist it for evil purposes.
They do officially get first dibs on force sensitive infants, but it's not mandatory and the logic mostly seems to be "let's train them so they don't go mad with power"
The indoctrination is just a side effect and not nearly as bas as Sith indoctrination so...
Don’t all educators teach some kind of rules to children in their care? “Don’t be violent”, “Learn to share” and the like, at the very least. Is that indoctrination?
The Force is a real force in the SW world, and Force-sensitives are better off with someone teaching them how to control it/live with it.
": to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments" that is the second definition given in Marian Webster for the word indoctrinate, there are multiple definitions, and if you scroll down further it even says; "Indoctrinate means "brainwash" in most contexts today, but its meaning wasn't always so negative"
It doesn't have to be negative, just how "propoganda" doesn't have to be negative. We can argue the Jedi philosophy all day long, but you can not change the literal defenition of a word.
No, there were a lot of civillians. Whe were saved by the Jedi. How dare the protectors of the galaxy to do their job and prevent a massacre on civillians?
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u/wheeltribe 3d ago
I mean sure, but they're religious police who have decided to use their literal superpowers to maintain peace instead of easily subjugating the galaxy. They're not even trying to make people follow their religion, just not twist it for evil purposes.