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[Star Wars] Why didn’t Palpatine get Anakin to take the youngest of the Younglings? They probably could have easily moulded them into lethal Dark Jedi assassins, inquisitors and such, seems like a senseless waste of life and talent.
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To manipulate him.  

A lot of the answers below go into the logistics of grabbing jedi/force sensitive kids, or the hurdles they must go through to be converted into inquisitors.  All of this misses the core point of *why* Palpatine did it.  

To manipulate him.  Which is what he'd been doing for almost the entirety of his life.  

He didn't 'need' Anakin to go back to the temple and start slaughtering his fellows in the sense that he needed the manpower, or Anakin's abilities, to get it done.  What he did need was a guilt and rage fueled monster by his side who would do whatever he said, whenever he said it, without hesitation or compunction.  

So he manipulated him.  Appealing to his sense of 'duty to the Republic,' Palpatine sent him there to baptize his new apprentice *in blood.*  

Up to that point, Anakin had only committed one truly unforgivable sin in his life - the slaughter of the sand people that tortured and murdered his mother.  It was something he did in the heat of rage, and something that haunted him for the rest of his life.  It was something he specifically spoke about to Palpatine, and which Papa Palps *reminded* him about while they were at the opera.  To really get his new apprentice off to a running start, Palpatine needed him to face the same situation without hesitation, and without even the hint of valid justification.   He needed Anakin to become a *murderer.*  Because, once he did, serving Palpatine would be the only path left for him, and it would fill him with rage enough for a lifetime.  

It worked quite well.