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[Star Wars] How much free will do Jedi and force sensitive people have?

Does the force make it so that every major event is set in stone? Was there ever any possibility of Anakin not falling to the dark side or does the force demand that all of that stuff happens?

Do people in the Star Wars universe have any choice at all or does the existence of the force mean that everything that happens is pre-determined by it?
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Think of this way - the Sith *will* be destroyed. Balance *will* be brought to the Force. These are the endings, so-to-speak. No matter what path we walk down, they all make their way back to that conclusion.

Every event is not set in stone as if there was only ever one way for things to work out. Could Anakin have stayed in the Light and shunned the Dark? Of course he *could* have, but he didn't. He fell to the Dark Side, and brought pain and suffering to a great many people. Had Anakin stayed in the light, much pain would have been avoided, and it stands to reason that it *could* have worked out... but that's not what happened. Not because of destiny, but because of choice. It gave way to difficult times, yet Yoda and Obi-Wan both continued to trust in the Force - despite their inability to see how it would end.

To that end, they even made bad assumptions along the way. Obi-Wan believed ending Vader was the only hope for the galaxy. Yoda believed Luke should not have been trained in the ways of the Jedi. Both believed Anakin was dead (for all intents and purposes), and that Vader was irredeemable. 

Yet, despite all that, the Force did not will Vader to die, it lent Luke the strength to fight the Empire, and it was there to accept *Anakin* back to the Light once he had destroyed the last remaining Sith.

As the saying goes, "All is as the Force wills it to be." That doesn't mean that everything is set in stone - it means that eventually, when the Force demands something to happen... it will find a way to make it happen. No matter what.