He nods.  "Yes indeed.  It can be hard to know if you're one of them, especially when you're young - but by no means impossible."

"I don't think I am, at all."

"You seem to me to take freedom very seriously," Qui-Gon agrees.  "It's an admirable quality, and I think it will serve you well against the corrupting influence of the Dark Side."

"Good!"

He chortles.  "I'm glad of it as well."

"What does the Dark Side of the Force do, though?"

"It grants you power," Qui-Gon says, "and in some ways that power is easier to obtain than that of the rest of the Force.  But it also changes the way you feel and think.  It amplifies your negative emotions and turns them toward less productive, more destructive ends."

"Oh."

"That sounds bad."

"It is," he says.  "In some ways it's a cruel fate to be Force-Sensitive, as it makes us more susceptible to the Dark Side.  Many Jedi find that stricter interpretations of the Order's codes of conduct can be helpful in resisting it's influence, even if they feel rigid and restrictive at first.  But I don't believe that they are the only such tool."

"I don't like being restricted. It's - ugh."

He considers her.

"My suspicion is that you in particular can do very well for yourself by nurturing and cleaving to your positive values, more than submitting to forbiddances.  I believe that codes restricting one's behavior are healthiest and most effective when they are chosen for oneself, in a safe and reflective state of mind, then when imposed by authority."

...Squiiiinnnt. "Positive values?"

"Things to move toward, rather than away from.  You freed Gardulla's slaves not because you were forbidden from doing otherwise, but because you valued their freedom.  I arrested Gardulla rather than killing her not because I am forbidden from killing, but because I value treating even the worst people as well as you can, given your circumstances.  In each of these cases we were moved forward not by a negative prohibition against inaction, but by our positive desire for a better future than the one our present had in store.  This distinction is at the core of much Jedi thought.  Many of us are suspicious of positive values, because the Dark Side finds it easier to twist the urge to act toward ill ends than it does to so corrupt an oath not to act in certain ways.  But I think positive values are important to embrace, where it is safe to do so; and I think some people are better led toward the light by embracing them.  Complacency might not be the favorite tool of the Dark Side of the Force, but it is certainly a tool of injustice."

...Hmmm that's a bunch of big thoughts she needs to mull over.