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Ethics (Thursday, September 28, 6th period)

Vader swept into the room precisely on time, slamming the door hard enough to reverberate down the hallway. He dropped a box of cookies onto his desk.

"Today we talk about how a strict sense of right and wrong interferes in efficiency," he said, pacing the room and clearly intending to intimidate as many students as possible. "Employees who do not believe that there will be consequences for their incompetence become lazy, stupid, and easily replaceable."

Vader took the box of cookies from his desk and passed it around the room. "Each of you has a cookie," he said. "You will spend the rest of the class period using the tactics of fear, shame and guilt to get the other people in this classroom to give you their cookies." And yes, that word sounded incredibly strange coming from him. "Whoever has the most cookies at the end of the class will get to keep them."

He crossed his arms over his chest. "Are these tactics unethical? Does it matter if you get what you want?"

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Just try it. Seriously. Aeryn's all about the giving.

Jack couldn't resist. "Hey, Aeryn. I don't suppose you want to give me your cookie?"

"Not at all," she answers. "Though you could always give me yours."

"I could." Jack looked thoughtfully at his cookie. "Actually, I think I might."

Aeryn looks at him suspiciously. "Really."

"Maybe." He looked at her, head tipped to the side. "I'm not sure I want to succeed at anything he," and he jerked his thumb at Vader, "wants us to do."

"Hm. You have a point. I can definitely help you there, then."

Because while Aeryn would normally think the same thing, this assignment is kind of second nature. Something could be said about her own ethics, but she just wants the cookies.

Jack nodded. "It kind of goes against the grain just to hand it over, though," he explained, starting to smile. "What would you give me for it?"

"How long has it been since I last threatened to shoot you?" she wonders, completely conversationally.

"It's been awhile." His smile was turning into a grin. "I kind of miss it."

"All right, then give me the cookie or I shoot you," she tells him.

"I enjoyed that. A lot," he said, waggling his eyebrows at her. "But not enough to give you my cookie."

"Do you really want me seriously threatening to shoot you over a cookie?" Aeryn asks. "I'm not above it."

Aeryn pretends to consider this, and says, "No."

"Not even if I did something for you in return?" First bribery, then attempts at intimidation.

Aeryn looks at him critically. "And what would you do for me?"

"I could clean your guns, take off my shirt, any number of things really."

She's not trying not to laugh, really.

"Besides if you give me your cookie, people won't come up and threaten you for it."

"That's insulting," Aeryn says. "First, then I'm without a cookie and second, if I broke your hand right now, that would keep more people away."

"But if people stay away then you can't threaten them for their cookies."

"Oh, no, I can. I would just have to do it louder and address everyone at once."

"Like Jamie is?"

"Something tells me I would be taken more seriously. If you don't believe it, give me your hand."

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