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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 4821928" data-attributes="member: 7635">Actually, that can get dicey...The Force as originally conceived in SW IV: A New Hope is much more of a force of "good" that allows free-will (users can chose to fall to the dark side at any time) but also controls the user's action (hence the emphasis on prophecy/destiny) but Lucas (in many of his interviews) specifically tried to keep the Light Side and the Dark Side as "separate" voices which speak to a Force User unconsciously and try to influence him one way or the other.That gets VERY convoluted when you enter the Expanded Universe, with the concept of the Unified Force (in a nutshell: there is no light/dark, there is the Force, and how a person uses it makes it light/dark). Lucas has for the most part ignored it (and some EU contradicts the idea) but its inclusion allows for a more S&S styled "individual morality, Force a tool" method of looking at it. So depending on how you look at it (and what sources your citing) the Force can be EITHER an absolute good/evil force OR an immoral tool of which human morality can be imposed. The former tells a better HF morality play, the latter opens the door to concepts like Imperial Knights (Jedi not dedicated to the Order but to a government) and Force traditions which are neither good nor evil.</blockquote>