I was thinking about the Jedi, and that they in many ways do things that to us is morally questionable. First of all, they take infants away from their parents so they can be trained as Jedi. In many cases, the parents go along with it. I've heard of cases where they do not. In order to train force adepts to become Jedi, it's necessary for the order to train them from birth. And most parents (especially those who can provide a future for their child) wouldn't just give it away just because someone asked. This explains why the Jedi do what they do, but it doesn't justify it. But at least the children will grow up to be noble guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, right?

Not necessarily, no. If a youngling isn't accepted by a knight or master by the age of 13, they're shipped of to an agricultural world to work on farms there. This almost happened to Obi-Wan. Sounds close to slavery.

"Sry about robbing you of your childhood to train you as a Jedi knight, but as it turns out, we don't have a place for you after all. So we'll just send you to a farm instead."

I understand that having a bunch of semi-trained force adepts roaming the galaxy is a potential threat to the security of the common people, so the Jedi have to keep track of them. How many would use their powers for crime? Even if the conditions of these workers are probably good, maybe better than they could have hoped for on their home world, it's not like they have a choice.

The Jedi of the pre-clone wars era put themselves in a hypocritical position by doing morally questionable things, while claiming to be righteous and just. I think Luke and his new Jedi Order does well in avoiding such dilemmas by having older force adepts join the order of their own free will.

MTFBWY!