Originally posted by Forum Ninja
I see. What does that change? Hopefully you're not appealing to a majority. That's a hell of a rotten fallacy.
Well, he hasn't appealed to the rest of us, so it wouldn't be an appeal to the majority. At all. So your usage is wrong.
The truth is, the ANH scene is an irregularity, an abberation. It does not fit any other source, at any level of canon. It is an outlier, and can be ignored.
(Anyway, didn't the wound close over instantly? There wasn't an arterial blood spurt going so the argument could be made that it did close the wound.)
Yes. Lightsaber wounds can make things bleed. Let's say you don't cut in a particular manner or you cut very fast. A lot of Jedi are trained to cut and dismember in a concise manner. Kenobi was older and may have gotten rusty. It could have been due to various reasons. It happened though. It's not non-canon that his arm was severed and bled. It happened! Poor aqualish Ponda Baba bled. Also, in "Darth Maul" (EU Canon) Mighella bleeds after Maul strikes her in the BS HQ. After her body drops.
Wookieepedia:
One important note about lightsaber wounds is that they rarely bleed profusely, even when a limb had been severed. The energy blade cauterized the wound as it passed, and thus even a severe wound did not tend to bleed heavily.
It is the exception, rather than the rule, for lightsabers to inflict a wound that causes any kind of bleeding at all. The ANH encounter is one of the few cases of such an occurrence. We cannot assume that any given lightsaber wound will bleed. If you want to suggest that Ventress and Maul's attacks will injure Mace in such a way that he bleeds then it will be up to you to prove that their attacks will be performed differently from the majority of the Saga.
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
It is the exception, rather than the rule, for lightsabers to inflict a wound that causes any kind of bleeding at all. The ANH encounter is one of the few cases of such an occurrence. We cannot assume that any given lightsaber wound will bleed. If you want to suggest that Ventress and Maul's attacks will injure Mace in such a way that he bleeds then it will be up to you to prove that their attacks will be performed differently from the majority of the Saga.
I never said otherwise. I know there are few cases. My whole point was that it happens, not that an LS wound bleeds more often that it is cauterized. I never suggested that they would be wounded in such a way.
You seem to be trailing off a little here.