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Dropping to about 5 after he kills the Sand People, when he starts raving about how he's going to be the most powerful Jedi ever and stop people from dying.
When I was a kid, I used to say things like that when I had some of my explosive tantrums. But there is a difference between me and Anakin, and I'll list them here.
1: I KNEW that those things I was saying were irrational, but I didn't care because I was so angry. When I calmed down I'd take them back and apologize for it.
2: I didn't do that because I was a spoiled, whiny creep, I did that because I was seriously abused by people around me at school (not only the students, but the teachers and principles, too) and no one came to my help. I was gueniely enraged and had a reason to be that angry, and my tantrums were normally for blowing steam.
3: Unlike Anakin, who was without a doubt the most hateable 'hero' of the silver screen, I had friends, and I was a little boy and my family loved me. My friends loved me, too and the teachers in school (with some exceptions) cared for me and, were friendly to me (and vise versa) and really went out of their way to help me... but sadly, they were powerless to do anything about the people who abused me.
4: Another difference between me and Anakin is that Anakin wasn't like this when he was a kid... during the Phantom Menace, he was a perfect little angel, and later turned into a complete asshole. I, on the other hand, have been a easily irratable and angry person even when I was a small kid. I've been seeing doctors and taking anger management classes and medication ever since I was 10 years old, and I've been steadily improving ever since.
5: I don't bother people I hardly know or uninvolved people with my tantrums and raves... Anakin apparently doesn't care about that at all -- he does it to everyone!
6: When I was 19, I was mostly gone with my anger. Oh sure, I still had it around the edges and whatnot, but it was FAR better than I was a few years earlier. When I was 20, my anger was almost completely gone (with one exception between March-June 2004, but that was hardly anything... and I laugh at it completely). Here I am now, 21 years old, and one of the most coolest headed people my family knows... I've gone a long way since then.
And Mad Rabbit, welcome aboard!