To me, embracing your emotions/passions in all of one's dealings, while not necessarily evil in itself, can more easily lead to evil acts. The OP mentioned love between a mother and child is good, but that same love can most certainly lead the mother to do evil things to other people. This is seen in the fall of Anakin Skywalker, when his love for Amadala led him to do many evil acts in what he thinks is protecting her. The point here, is that while passions/emotions and such that are linked to the dark side is not necessarily evil in itself, but since humans (or in star wars, sentient beings?) are not perfect, following whats "in our hearts" will likely lead us to do evil acts. The Jedi, on the other hand, recognizes this and denies themselves from this so that they can make moral judgments without emotions clouding their minds. While I do agree that some actions of Jedi is not purely good, and the sith not purely evil, I think the grand idea behind these organizations will lead one side to be more evil and good.

That is what I meant, as in the BoH in the Bane books came after Darth Ruin's Empire. I guess my point was, for those who keeps saying read the Bane books, was that the BoH, nor the empire before it (Darth Ruin), was obviously not the one in the game

To those who keeps saying read the Bane books, Kaan's brotherhood of darkness was originally started by Darth Ruin, which happens after the Empire in this game. I don't remember it exactly, but I thought this empire will end with civil war

Shoryuken >>>>>>>>> retarded hit with rifle