I thought both choices were equally bad, but the light side one made me feel more ill. There's the damage the guy could do -- but he hasn't done it yet. Maybe he was planning to run off to the best psychiatrists in the galaxy for therapy, or maybe he was planning on stealing a bunch of money and retiring to a resort planet. He was imprisoned through no fault of his own, but for what other people had done to him. And imprisoning someone out of fear for what they might do when they have yet to do anything wrong is, imo, the height of Lawful Evil, heavy on the Evil. Plus, he did help the Agent do what she needed to do. He couldn't help it, but that doesn't erase the fact that he did it, as creepy as he was about it. So you get a choice of personal betrayal of him or betrayal of the Empire, and I don't think one is better than the other. I wished I could have asked him to join my crew.
Jedi are Self Righteous Jerks to the extent of Self-Righteously wanting to kill every force user who is not a Jedi and whom they cannot force to become a Jedi. (Not the Mystics, but they mistrust the Mystics and want nothing to do with them simply because the Mystics are not Jedi. When my Knight pointed out that the galaxy was not divided into Jedi and evil people, Satele Shan said "a Jedi does not compromise." Brrr.) Self Righteous Jerks with power inevitably do drastic amounts of damage. As a certain Ortolan on Hoth says, the Republic is crusading.
The fact that Jedi tear small children away from their families, do not allow the children any contact with said families, and tell the small children they must swear never to get attached to anyone or have sex when they cannot have a clue what they're swearing to give up makes them evil anyway. They force people to live lies: it's pretty clear that pretty much zero Jedi actually follow the "no attachment/no sex" part of the Jedi code. (Except possibly for the Emperor -- whom you find follows the Jedi Code, not the Sith Code, when you meet him as a Knight -- and the "bury me and my unconscious apprentice alive" guy in the Warrior quest. Though actually the second guy is attached to his apprentice, so nvm that.)
There's one line from an Imperial in the Knight quest that I think sums Jedi up pretty well. (This isn't an exact quote). "Typical Jedi: kill people and then apologize for it." Just like the walrus, they'll eat you alive, but they promise to cry afterward.
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Jedi are Self Righteous Jerks to the extent of Self-Righteously wanting to kill every force user who is not a Jedi and whom they cannot force to become a Jedi. (Not the Mystics, but they mistrust the Mystics and want nothing to do with them simply because the Mystics are not Jedi. When my Knight pointed out that the galaxy was not divided into Jedi and evil people, Satele Shan said "a Jedi does not compromise." Brrr.) Self Righteous Jerks with power inevitably do drastic amounts of damage. As a certain Ortolan on Hoth says, the Republic is crusading.
The fact that Jedi tear small children away from their families, do not allow the children any contact with said families, and tell the small children they must swear never to get attached to anyone or have sex when they cannot have a clue what they're swearing to give up makes them evil anyway. They force people to live lies: it's pretty clear that pretty much zero Jedi actually follow the "no attachment/no sex" part of the Jedi code. (Except possibly for the Emperor -- whom you find follows the Jedi Code, not the Sith Code, when you meet him as a Knight -- and the "bury me and my unconscious apprentice alive" guy in the Warrior quest. Though actually the second guy is attached to his apprentice, so nvm that.)
There's one line from an Imperial in the Knight quest that I think sums Jedi up pretty well. (This isn't an exact quote). "Typical Jedi: kill people and then apologize for it." Just like the walrus, they'll eat you alive, but they promise to cry afterward.