6 hours ago, Cifer said:

I'm saying that a state (or a monastic order somehow entwined with a state) that uses not the minimum amount of force necessary to resolve a situation, but instead strives to "make an example" of its populace by intentional use of excessive force is less than sympathetic to me and would indeed be exactly what Tarkin recommends. Harm greater than necessary to defuse an immediate threat should be left to a judicial system, not to the guy on site in the heat of the moment. This may be about this strange double-role of the Jedi as "peacekeepers" internal and external, by which they assume both roles of a police force and a military in addition to diplomats. Adama's adage comes to mind:

I think it's a big leap to characterize the use of deadly force in combat while on Republic business as intentionally terrorizing your own people into submission.

The Jedi also weren't "military" until they were pressed/manipulated into the role by palpatine/Darth sidious. Traditionally they were just diplomats and special investigator police (the nearest analog I think might be fbi or secret service)