civilize

“In a civilized society, what does violence get you?”

Only the Jedi are deemed civilized, and therefore their orthodoxy of the Force should be imposed on others for their own good.

Shocking because violence is no way for a civilized people to mediate their political differences.

We sense early on, from Mortensen’s delicate handling of their courtship, that this isn’t some musty rehash of the trope where she civilizes him and he domesticates her.

For Roman-era writers such as Tacitus, the region was beyond the edge of the civilized world, known only through unreliable second-hand reports.