originally posted in:The TopHat Society
They remove emotion because it clouds judgment. That's why Anakin's love with Padme was against the rules; see what love did to him?
By detaching themselves from emotion, the Jedi can be purely objective in their pursuit of knowledge and attempts to keep the universe on the path to Light.
Basically, kill the heart so the mind can work freely.
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That would get you emotionally unstable and probably mad. The point is that you have to know your emotions and rationally dominate them. Not irrationally repress them.
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Detachment is not repressing.