Light Vs. Dark

We all know that in the movies the Light Side of the Force vanquishes the Dark Side of the Force. But which do you think is better? Which is stronger?

My thoughts are that the Dark Side is quicker and easier and perhaps stronger at first, but a true devotee to the Light Side is so much more powerful. We also have the fact that the Dark Side twists and corrupts it's users. So, what do you think? State you opinion and feel free to discuss (mind it I said discuss, not argue) which side you think is better

 

Neither is stronger. The Dark Side is the easy route, while the Light Side is the hard route.

 

In the end, the light is much much stronger. I mean so strong that it is everything. The Dark Side to me is simply a temporary bending of the light. Without the illuminating surrounding light, we couldn't see the traces of small shadows that are the Dark Side.

 

The answer is easy.

Literally.

Just like in real life, the 'dark way' (and I use such a phrase liberally) is easy because on the surface it appears to be a stronger path. Think about it for a moment. Suppose you work in a firm. There's a business associate of yours that you don't like and for all intents and purpose is not a very good person. Yet, you know that it would be relatively easy to pin a mistake on him that would help elevate you up the hierarchy resulting in better pay and more benefits for yourself and essentially giving him what he deserves. And while you know that doing such a thing would be wrong, you also know that doing things the legit way could mean spending several more years grinding away before receiving the promotion that you could attain relatively quickly.

So what do you do?

You have an easy road.
You have a difficult road.

You have a right way.
You have a wrong way.

Is it really a matter of strength; with one way being stronger than the other? Or is the definition of strength the thing that is really in question in this instance? Is strength the ability to amass greater wealth and prestige? Or is strength a measure of one's self-control?

 

Then the answer is The Dark Side is stronger in the living world or short term but in the ultimate, it's nothing.

 

Conservative Soldier, things aren't always black and white. Some things aren't always either right or wrong. So what do you do then?

Let's say that by becoming the leader of this firm, along the way up to that path, you've made the same mistakes and decisions that your now ex-rival made. Now you've become the thing that you've worked so long and so hard to replace. So if you start out with good intentions, but then become bad on the way there, what path is that? It's not good, but it's not evil. Then let's say that you make the same ruthless business decisions, but give regularly to charity. So what are you then?

Mind you, I'm kind of twisting you're original example,and playing the devil's advocate, but look at what I made!

 

I am almost a Potentium believer. I don't believe that there is a dark side of the force, just how you use the force that separates light and dark. And I think the light side is potentially far more powerful.

 

UM, the Potentium is a wrong Force Philosophy. It has been disproven Out of Universe by Lucas and In Universe when almost all Potentium Believers went dark.

 

It seems to me that Lucas' scripts are more clear than his films in this regard.

 

"If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

That was all that was needed to be said for me.

I don't think you could ever use the same line while representing the Dark Side.

 

In fact we are assured that the Sith cannot achieve that ability.

 

I don't believe in Potentium. I only believe that it is how you use the force that makes it light or dark.

 

Wrong. There ARE Light and Dark Sides of the Force. It has been proven. The Dark Side is quicker, more seductive, while the Light Side is about hard work.

 

It's all hypothetical. No harm, no foul as far as I'm concerned. That stated, remember that the crux of the example given centers around choice. Let's say one took the difficult road, worked his butt off to earn his way to the top, and then wound up becoming, as you say, the "thing that he's worked so long and so hard to replace."

What we have is not a dilemma centering around precepts of strength or moral quandaries dealing with whether the original decision was right or wrong, but rather we have in this example a deviation. Because ultimately, there was a point at which our hero ( ) made a choice that took him off the difficult (but right) road and set him off on the easy (but wrong) path.

Choosing the right path once in no way guarantees that you will remain on that path. Hence the difficulty of it.

 

Yes, and you need the strength of the light side to keep on that good path, whereas if you were to choose the dark side to get there, you'd get there faster, but become something along the way you weren't originally thinking of becoming.