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[Star Wars] How far into the dark side does one have to go before it becomes their destiny?

Yoda says "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will" which seems to imply that any amount of dark side use will doom you. Yet we see Mace Windu using the dark side during Vaapad lightsaber combat. Many Jedi have used the dark side in isolated instances of combat yet did not turn into a Sith lord.
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A correction, Mace *does not use the dark side with Vaapad*. Simply opening up to the emotions and allowing himself to enjoy the fights does not mean he's using the dark side. It's a mirror, meant to turn the dark side in opponents back against them. A poorly trained user of the vaapad style can fall to the dark side, but that's because they don't have the self-control to prevent that.

And like Dejaun said, it's not a blanket X amount of points means you're going to be entangled in the dark side forever.

But it *is* a slippery slope. The more you use the dark side, the more you *want* to use it, the more you *prefer* to use it, and the harder it will be to turn away in the future.