What is the "official" explanation for Jedi / Sith NOT USING THE FORCE TO SWITCH OFF OPPONENTS' LIGHTSABERS?
I heard something in the ether about "Honour code"... Surely, Shirley, they haven't predicated every fight involving a Lightsaber, throughout the entire SW timeline, upon the absurd notion of "honour codes" between arch enemies bent dismembering one another...?!
If sportsman-like conduct is all that staves of every Lightsaber wielder from being decapitated 5 seconds into a fight, because his opponent used a "Force flick" to de-energise his Kyber crystal, why did a non-Force sensitive Jar Jar Binks stand-in manage to survive even half-a-second against the raging emo incel, Gaylord Rimjob? Or, why didn't Palps just switch off his grand kid's weapon, instead of self-electrocuting? Is this really the most retarded oversight in film since (before) The Matrix's Law of Conservation of Energy defying, "human battery farms"...?!
My tacit take has always been that the first thing any Youngling given a lethal plasma weapon to flail around like a nerf bat, was first taught to master the Force ability of keeping the LS switch firmly in the "ON" position -- i.e., if they cannot do that, it doesn't ignite and, therefore, they can't even train with it...
Either that, or the weapons have some "magic fingerprint" tech that prevents manipulation while held in its owner's hand... Albeit, this latter take is kind of Midi-Chlorian stupid: for one thing, many have used foreign Lightsabers in SW canon -- of note, Gnr. Grievous.
So, what's the deal with the LS switches -- why not just flick 'em off at the point of first impact, thereby, rendering the weapons utterly redundant for use against anyone but space Muggles?