Interesting thoughts, it just seems that at the base all three factions kind of resort to killing for their ideology. Even the gray Jedi justify killing Sith and Jedi in the name of balance. There doesn't seem to be much of a passive peaceful existence as long as any of them exist and thus we find the paradox. Living and creating seems to imply on some level death and destruction, regardless of justification.
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I'm not talking about killing necessarily. I'm talking about aggression, as Yoda famously noted "a Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense. Never for attack." Any killing that isn't in response to an attack or aggression is ultimately unjustifiable.
They're explicitly anti-aggression. That's not to say that they're anti-violence (as is clearly demonstrated), but they believe in defense of self and others, not in initiating violence. By the only objective measure for judging morality, their philosophy is superior.
I don't disagree. It just seems to me that there should be a way to find common ground without the need to kill each other. It seems that their conflict was based on politics, imperial rule versus rebellion. I'd probably side with the Jedi before being a slave to imperial rule.
Maybe the Jedi's strict beliefs on morality create internal, self-inflicted violence as we see in Anakin's case. Would have liked to see him go the Solo route.