I think my main reason why I want to see Anakin's actions in line with his "destiny" even though they're morally wrong, rather than as a screw-up in the eyes of the Force, or a fall from grace or something like that, is that I truly prefer to see the Force as something like a natural energy phenomenon rather than a higher power that has "values" or something like that.
I like heroes (and villains) to be free, responsible for their actions, and furthermore I dislike moral codes coming from an absolute, outside source, I'd rather have beings that are alone without a tangible higher power, damned to negotiate and justify their ethics among themselves, but also able to shape their world as they wish, than have a "natural order" imposed on them in a kind of feudal worldview. In a way universes with such an order are comforting to me on a gut-level precisely because their is no uncertainty (which is why I like LOTR for example), but I still have problems with them as soon as I think about them more.
In those kind of "natural order" universes the heroes typically can only restore the order through their quest, while only the villains are free to disrupt the order with a vision of how they want the world to be, because those universes are structurally conservative. And I guess it is possible to interpret SW and the Force in such a way. If however the Force was similar to other natural forces it would still act on the universe, and their might be "destinies" in the sense that certain things have to come about, but the people would still largely be free, rather than truly just subjects too a (sentient) higher power. That is also why I prefer Light and Dark as perceptions imposed on the Force by the Force users, which isn't to say that they're not "real" but it is a choice to see the Force this way and to then use the perceptions to be guided by the Force as the Jedi can be.
I guess I just like the idea that the Force could be "spiritual" without limiting freedom or judging morality in any way, beyond limits similar to those any other natural law imposes.
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I like heroes (and villains) to be free, responsible for their actions, and furthermore I dislike moral codes coming from an absolute, outside source, I'd rather have beings that are alone without a tangible higher power, damned to negotiate and justify their ethics among themselves, but also able to shape their world as they wish, than have a "natural order" imposed on them in a kind of feudal worldview. In a way universes with such an order are comforting to me on a gut-level precisely because their is no uncertainty (which is why I like LOTR for example), but I still have problems with them as soon as I think about them more.
In those kind of "natural order" universes the heroes typically can only restore the order through their quest, while only the villains are free to disrupt the order with a vision of how they want the world to be, because those universes are structurally conservative. And I guess it is possible to interpret SW and the Force in such a way. If however the Force was similar to other natural forces it would still act on the universe, and their might be "destinies" in the sense that certain things have to come about, but the people would still largely be free, rather than truly just subjects too a (sentient) higher power. That is also why I prefer Light and Dark as perceptions imposed on the Force by the Force users, which isn't to say that they're not "real" but it is a choice to see the Force this way and to then use the perceptions to be guided by the Force as the Jedi can be.
I guess I just like the idea that the Force could be "spiritual" without limiting freedom or judging morality in any way, beyond limits similar to those any other natural law imposes.