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!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam wasn't at all intimidated. It wasn't like his eyes were glowing.

"You should have eaten something before class."

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie pulls out another container of swedish meatballs and bounces it off the walls.

DOES IT LOOK LIKE I CAN EAT IN THIS THING?"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam wasn't snickering. Really.

"Maybe we could puree it and you could use a straw?"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

*breathes in*

*breathes out*

"DO WE HAVE MILK?"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Only from an evil cow. You probably don't want it." Hey, it could be true.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"COWS ARE NOT EVIL! DO NOT LIE TO ME OR THERE WILL BE REPURCUSSIONS!"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Why are cows exempt from evil?" Sam asked, then laughed, raised an eyebrow and looked at him suspiciously. "Repercussions?"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

...

"Okay. I got nothing"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam held her hand out expectantly. "You owe me one cookie as an empty threat fine."

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"NoooooOOOOOoooooOOOOOOoooooOOOOOoooo!"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam nodded. "Yes."

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Fine. But first there is something you should know.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"And what's that?" Sam knew she was going to regret this question.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."

*breathes in*

*breathes out*

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"So what does that make us?" Sam ignored the fact that she didn't have an uncle on her father's side.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

This is followed by maniacal laughter.

And then the quiet handover of the cookie.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam shook with laughter.

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Laugh Tax. Cost: One cookie!"

Re: Gimme your cookies!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam handed it over. "Totally worth it."