Ethics (Thursday, September 28, 6th period)

[sith_happened]

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?"

Comments

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"You said that already." Alanna pointed out. "And please don't take your brain out of your head on account of me."

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River rolled her eyes. "You know what I mean."

There was just one problem here. She didn't really want to hurt anyone.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna smirked and didn't let go of her cookie. "You have your own cookie."

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Give me yours or I'll have Berthold eat your cat."

Using Bertie like this was unfair, especially since he was a very peaceful monster who would never eat a cat. Why get hair in you mouth when you could have ice cream?

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"Would he like some ketchup on the side?" Alanna asked with a smile. Faithful stuck his head out of the bag, stuck his tongue out at the world, and went back to his nap.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"He doesn't like ketchup. And perhaps the cat is too hairy," River replied. "So can I have your cookie anyway?"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"Nope!"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Why not?"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"We've bonded." Alanna cuddled the cookie. Her bag snorted.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"But look at the cookie behind you!" River said, attempting to steal the cookie while Alanna looked away.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna gave River a Look. "This one is special."

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River curled up into a ball on the floor and started crying.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna blinked. "Um....er....um.....er....River?"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River sobbed and covered her ears with her hands.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna flailed. Cookie in hand. And considered a quick diagnostic spell to see if River was faking or not.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River shuddered in between sobs.