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[Star Wars] Does the Dark Side naturally corrupt its users?

I always thought that the Dark Side could actually be used to do greater good in the universe, like a truly selfless character could use it to create a better world through order and freedom (a utopia?). 

But practically every Sith that I've seen in movies, games or books just uses the dark side to only help themselves, usually involving murder, torture and sometimes genocide, e.g. they seem to get worse the more they use the dark side.

I mean, emotions fall under the dark side such as love and passion, these aren't inherently evil, just taken to an extreme they can lead to evil. Does it just always turn its users into murderous, angry assholes?
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That's a pretty biased way to put it.

Look, the natural state of the universe is dark. Everything that emits light it temporary, rather it lasts a second, a year or a million years, eventually everything returns to darkness.

So it is with the dark side of the force. The way of the dark side is the natural state of things, the wielder is themselves, pure and true, unrestrained by others' moral strictures and ideas of what they can and cannot do. The path of the dark side is how the universe acts when we stop trying to make it conform to our ideals.

The light side asks you to defy your own personality to restrain your own true self, to become something in order to use power. What is all that altering of one's self but...corruption?

So no, the dark side does not naturally corrupt anyone. It allows you to be the greatest form of you there is. If you wish to help others, help them, if you wish to kill them, kill them- if you can. You may rule over those weaker than you or live peacefully following the orders of those who do. 

The only price to be paid to learn the dark side of the force is that which the teacher requires of you. It remains up to you to decide if that trade is a good one. The practicioners of the other art, well, they require a lifetime commitment and total monastic fervor- it is the equivalent of selling one's soul for the morsels of power they choose to meagerly drip out to you.

But yes, since there are not limits to the dark side's glories, you may drink too greedily at the cup. You may use the power to do things that others may come to despise you for, and yes, you may get away with a good bit of them for a long time. But your ability to do these things is limited by the length of time you can stave off the enemies that you will inevitably make, and eventually, everyone meets their match.

A wise person uses their power judiciously to serve their needs without harming those that do not need to be harmed. They are feared and respected, but not hated unnecessarily. The most recent crop of Sith don't seem to be very aware of that advice. Accordingly, they meet bad fates at the hands of their brainwashed light side opposites.

Perhaps you might be the different one. Perhaps you can bend the very universe to your will without it destroying you. Only you can find out. The journey of a billion parsecs starts with but a single first step.

Will you take it?