@Ditb01 Palpatine unconsciously hid his force sensitive nature from an early age, so the Jedi did not detect him. Also, I believe it was stated somewhere that his father, Cosinga Palpatine, was distrustful of the Jedi, and would not have given him up even if he had been identified. I cannot seem to find anything on his Wookieepedia article about that though.

Difficult to say. Nature vs nurture as Pith says.

As far as Legends goes, Palps had prophecies about being a baddie. And he was showing fairly questionable traits from a young age so he was probably always going to struggle to stay in the light side.

It's also worth saying that the Jedi Order is quite proficient at turning out Sith so I doubt Palps would have been any different. Especially when you consider how badly they handled Anakin.

"No-one's born horrible. No-one's born a bitch or a villain or whatever you want to call it. They're made that way." - Charlotte Jordan.

I definitely believe that nurture has a role to play in how people turn out, and, who knows? Palpatine may have turned out differently had he been a Jedi. However, being a Jedi is far from a solution to being evil, the Order seems to have a habit of attracting evildoers in a talent called plot convenience (which is not necessarily a bad thing, in case this statement paints it as such). The Jedi are far from flawless themselves, as we see in Rise of the Red Blade, and may also inadvertently contribute towards his fall to the Dark Side.

That was from a Canon perspective. In Legends, Palpatine would not have known his cold father, a main sourceand recipient of his hatred, as he would have been raised by the Jedi, but Hego Damask was still influential on Coruscant, the home of the Jedi Temple, so they may have met there in this theoretical scenario, and things may play out exactly the same, provided Padawan Sheev had a direction and desire to channel his resentment, which isn't implausible. It can't be easy living without ever knowing one's family, and being told that one should not grow attached to them, while still being encouraged to explore one's culture of origin. However, he is no Anakin or Iskat. He isn't attached to anyone, far from it. He would gladly see the galaxy crumble in order to let his plans play out. He is detached, which, while equally dangerous as attachment, does not give him the same motive that many others fell as a result of. He could easily become disillusioned with the Jedi, however, and stray from their path.

To conclude, he might have turned out better had he been a Jedi, but it is far from a given. So, I suppose, I will vote yes for might. To vote no would be to shut down even the slimmest smithereen of possibility, and I do not judge that to necessarily be my belief.

Wow, the vote is ridiculously close!

I mean who knows what would have really happened if was raised in the Jedi order

It is unclear if he was always evil from the start or if he was influenced when he was trained by Darth Plagueis

The age old nature vs nurture debate

For me, as a biologist by specialism, the probable truth to that debate is that it is a combination of both nature and nurture.

Twin studies quite often show that identical twins who are raised separately in different environments show much smaller difference in characteristics than non-identical twins similarly separated.

Genetics plays a huge role in the way biological organisms development. Then the environment they experience impacts upon those genetic predispositions.

One of the studies that looked at the link between areas of the brain and behaviour may shine some further light on this. The story of Phinneas Gage, an upstanding, polite and hardworking pillar of the community (apparently), suffered an injury to his cerebral cortex. An explosion caused a metal spike to impale him through the frontal lobe. He recovered from said injury but he became a very different person, rude, aggressive and prone to antisocial behaviour.

So the frontal lobe plays a part in how our baser emotions and urges are regulated. If Palps had any developmental differences with his frontal lobe due to the structure of his DNA then perhaps he may have genetic tendencies towards the behaviours that made him do the things he did.

Chuck in a family who basically hated and feared him and you have a recipe for negative traits.

So I'm going to call it that Palps probably had a predisposition to his worst traits and his environment did nothing to iron them out. In fact, made them worse.

Had he been raised in a more supportive, loving environment, like having parents who lived him, listened to him and gave them their time, then perhaps his worst excesses may have been tempered.

However, the Jedi Order may not necessarily have been the place to help him due to their encouragement of non-attachment, which is not a natural setting for social primates.

Which means the answer to the question is maybe.

I went for yes though due to the in-universe baddie prophecies in Legends.

Palpatine was pretty much just born a psychopath

Lol it's a tie

But i genuinely believe that Palpatine was always going to be evil

I'm sorry to break your bubble but even if it's very very rare some people are just simply evil even if they have good upbringing, Palpatine seems to be one of them. He's a psychopath.

And some of y'all are the same people who treat Anakin like he's the evilest character in the world and saying he doesn't deserve redemption and yet think Palpatine could have been better person as a Jedi...😀 and that doesn't even make sense tbh

And i'm not trying to be negative either

There's one good thing that comes out of Palpatine being raised by the Jedi Order. He at least gets to be considered a fallen hero like Krell.