I understand that the Jedi use the Force for self defence, but still, couldn't they just use the Force to snap their foes' necks and be done with it? Like when Jaina Solo was hunting down Darth Caedus. Or even when Caedus was duelling Grand Master Skywalker. If he just used the Force to snap Skywalker's neck (like he did to poor Lieutenant Tebut), it will all be over very fast.
Is there a canon reason why Jedi and Sith don't use their powers to directly harm their opponents?
Answer
There is at least one case of a Dark Jedi using the Force to snap an enemy's neck; in the novel The New Rebellion, Kueller snaps his traitorous second-in-command Femor's neck in front of his troops as a display of his power. This is shown as being difficult for him to do, however - though Kueller forces himself to show none of this difficulty at the time, he was sweating profusely from the effort involved - and Femor was not Force-sensitive, and completely incapable of defending herself.
One would imagine, therefore, that snapping the neck of a Force-sensitive individual would be considerably harder, and there wouldn't be much of a point. Kueller only broke Femor's neck as a message to his jittery troops not to turn on him. When he later duelled with Luke Skywalker, he did not make any such attempt, as the effort he would expend to snap Skywalker's neck is less than the effort Skywalker would expend simply holding Kueller off for a few seconds while he used the Force to impale the younger man on his lightsaber, or smack Kueller in the head with a flying brick.
Think about it this way; in a physical confrontation, it is very unlikely for a person to die from a broken neck. Beating, stabbing or choking a person to death is far more common. Why should using the Force be any different? Especially as the Force gives one an innate "danger sense" that virtually eliminates the possibility of a sneak attack to break an opponent's neck.
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