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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3237609" data-attributes="member: 22424">I don't think a Paladin can pick and choose which authority is legitimate. Still, I'll grant you that one.But what about his repeated lies to Luke? And what about the excess of moral flexibility he shows? "What I said was true, from a certain point of view" is not something a Paladin should be saying.And there's one more issue. On Mustafar, having defeated Anakin, Obi-Wan walks away and leaves him to die a long, drawn-out and painful death. It strikes me that there were not one but two courses of action open to him that would have been far batter. In the first scenario, he kills Anakin, putting the boy out of his misery (and, incidentally, preventing the rise of Darth Vader and all the horrors that result from that). In the second scenario, he drags the wounded Anakin to safety, and spends the next several months redeeming him. (This also has the side-effect that he can tell Padme that Anakin is wounded but going to be okay. She may well then not die of a broken heart, and they all live happily ever after.)But no, he fails to take the difficult decision, and instead takes the quick and easy path. And, as Yoda predicted, thereafter that decision dominated his destiny.</blockquote>