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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 218788" data-attributes="member: 158">Yeah, Obi-wan was a paragon of morality and virtue, all right... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Pretty much. The indication is that someone who does not receive training in using the force is pretty much doomed to never develop it beyond being a very lucky son of a gun - a good mercenary or hot shot pilot, or just someone who knows how to get the best out of dealing with other people. It's not that NO ONE is self-taught - the first Jedi millenia ago had to start somewhere - but the preseumption is you would have to devote decades of self-study to become a strong Jedi or other force user without training, and most people aren't that patient.Anakin, without training, would have probably eventually been freed from Watto, become a heck of a hot-shot pilot for some company, and ultimately would have become an amoral, &quot;Han Solo&quot; type. That's my estimation, had no one reached him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 218788, member: 158"] Yeah, Obi-wan was a paragon of morality and virtue, all right... :) Pretty much. The indication is that someone who does not receive training in using the force is pretty much doomed to never develop it beyond being a very lucky son of a gun - a good mercenary or hot shot pilot, or just someone who knows how to get the best out of dealing with other people. It's not that NO ONE is self-taught - the first Jedi millenia ago had to start somewhere - but the preseumption is you would have to devote decades of self-study to become a strong Jedi or other force user without training, and most people aren't that patient. Anakin, without training, would have probably eventually been freed from Watto, become a heck of a hot-shot pilot for some company, and ultimately would have become an amoral, "Han Solo" type. That's my estimation, [i]had no one reached him.[/i] [/QUOTE]

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