Ethics [Thursday, November 9, 6th period]

[sith_happened]

Vader swept into the room and slammed the door behind him as usual.

"Immortality," he intoned, pacing in front of the class, mental walls incredibly strong. On this topic most of all, he had no interest in students poking around in his head. "Many beings have made life-altering choices in order to avoid dying, or to try to avoid someone they love dying. They've broken under torture, they've made pacts with powerful beings, they've sold their souls like a commodity. They've cloned themselves, murdered thousands, created machines to stop the passage of time."

Vader's cape billowed out around him as he turned. "Today's discussion is not about why all sentient and mortal beings seem to fear death. Today, you shall discuss what you would be prepared to give up if it would guarantee that you would live forever."

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Re: What would you do to live forever?

[stykera]

Stark shrugged. "Living longer isn't the same as living forever. I know someone who is over 800, and she isn't old yet. But that doesn't make her immortal."

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[sith_happened]

Vader was suddenly reminded of a wizened old Jedi master thumping through the Temple with a stick.

It wasn't a pleasant memory.

"Of course time is relative," Vader growled. "My lifetime is vast in comparison to a gundark's. But I know humans who refuse to be limited by the ravages of time on their flesh. They are driven towards greater things. Why shouldn't they be allowed to see their visions through?"

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[stykera]

Stark didn't really have an answer to that, so he just looked lost for a long moment while he tried to think of one.

"Why should they be?" he asked finally. "Death happens. For everyone. It has to. What makes any one vision better than another, more worthy of being finished?"

Re: What would you do to live forever?

[sith_happened]

"If they've found the way to extend their life, what's to stop them?"