Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
Though one can question why a sect of monks even has a weapon that can so easily violate their own principles, given a lightsabers potential destructive capabilities like setting things on fire, seems contrary to their whole "harmony with the universe" thing and they'd be better served just using a weapon thats basically a staff but can somehow withstand lightsabers so that they can use any part of it to defend against one, but lets remember that Star Wars is all an elaborate excuse to have cool space dogfights and lightsaber duels on a big screen. the morality stuff is just there to make you root for blue, nothing deeper.
The Jedi use lightsabers because to master such a dangerous weapon requires enormous amount of discipline and restraint.
Is something I just made up.
The Sith use lightsabers because it cuts through fools like nobody's business.