While I'm not entirely familiar with the etiquette involved in these situations, I do believe that most cultures would find it somewhat rude to drop an old man into the ocean with an activated lightsabre in the middle of a battle for the safety of an entire planet.
Okay. If I promise to pretend that I believe all this stuff about a primitive galaxy and our lives played out in a holovid, will everyone stop looking at me like I've grown two heads? In all fairness, I'll do a halfass job of it, but I'm starting to get a complex here. Work with me.