Assignment 3: Come to the dark side, Luke (Tyler Gorman)

It's funny that this assignment has the name that it does, because I think the best way to illustrate my position on this topic is Star Wars. Though I don't think I'd use Luke as a comparison, but rather his father.
Because of all the recent hype surrounding the new movie, I recently rewatched Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and noticed a few things I didn't the last time I saw it. Darth Vader--or, as I prefer to call him (as it's his real name), Anakin Skywalker--turned to the dark side of the Force because he was tempted by Chancellor Palpatine--a.k.a. Darth Sideous, or the Emperor--with the power to prevent his wife from dying in childbirth. While he does take a turn for the downright evil, murdering children, betraying the Jedi Order that raised and trained him, and pledging allegiance to the Sith Empire, he was doing it out of love--albeit shortsighted and selfish--and not because there was utter darkness in his heart.
I don't think Anakin Skywalker was inherently evil, nor do I think he chose to become what he ultimately did. He simply allowed his point of view to be twisted in a way that led him to commit acts of evil. While the acts themselves were evil, he justified them by convincing himself they were righteous. In a way I think that can be said of many figures people consider "evil."
The best way I can think of to sum up my argument is a quote from Obi-Wan Kenobi himself: "Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."