“Okay,” Anakin conceded. “I won’t bring it up with Obi-Wan or the other Jedi unprompted if I can help it. But if I need to because of my own health needs, I won’t hide it. I don’t care what he or the Jedi think about me ‘cause it doesn’t change what I need.”

He was quiet a moment before taking a chance to say more.

“I’m... not gonna validate what we did to the Raiders or Poggle the Lesser.” Though he wasn’t going to put his twin on either of those, either. He just knew neither of those things lacked moral ambiguity.

“But the Jedi don’t own ‘the right way’ to do a lot of things. There’s more than one way to meditate- use the one that helps you. That’s not wrong.

“Calling meaningful, emotionally and mentally health connections with people ‘attachments’ is just a way to vilify an alternative but acceptable moral code. It’s a shortcut to brainwashing their members to blindly follow the Council. Being loyal to people isn’t any more or less neutral than being loyal to an ideology. Ideologies, just like people, have to be weighed on each, individual basis. They can be bad, really bad.

“The Jedi don’t own moral superiority because they say they do or because they’ve been around for a long time. That’s just arrogance.”