fandomhigh | Ethics [Monday, January 7, 5th period]

If there was one thing Darth Vader excelled at, it was making a memorable first impression.

He waited until the classroom was full, then stalked in, cape flaring behind him.

He twitched his fingers as he reached the center of the room and the door slammed shut behind him.

"I am Darth Vader," he intoned over the even mechanized breathing of his suit. "I trust you may have already heard of me." His masked face scanned the faces in front of him. If he was at all affected by any negative thoughts and emotions being directed at him, he wasn't showing it. "You will refer to me as either Darth Vader or Lord Vader. Any other address will result in detention." He began pacing the room. "You should be grateful for that. Very few have ever been granted advanced warning of my actions.

"Today we discuss how far over the line you would go to save someone you love." Vader's voice turned cold. "I don't want to hear that you wouldn't go over a line. Would you lie for someone? Steal for them? Kill for them? Does it matter to you if it's friend or family? Does how much you love--" and yes, the word sounded awkward coming from that particular visage, "--that person affect how far you would go for them?"

Vader crossed his arms over his chest and waited for the first student to speak.

{OOC: Roster and syllabus here. I'm starting my first day of work in an internetless environment tomorrow morning, so Vader will be responding late. Please don't burn the classroom down while I'm gone :).]

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Turtle was glad the question took a while to get to her. She was too busy boggling that Crazy Desk Thrower was her ethics teacher. Somehow, this wasn't what she was expecting when someone said he 'wore a lot of black.'

"I'd go as far as I could," Turtle responded. "I don't think I could kill someone, but I've lied, cheated, stolen all before. If it's to serve a certain purpose and no one is getting hurt more than necissary, then you do what you have to, especially if it's someone you...care about."

She found herself unable to say 'love.'

"What would you consider to be 'more than necessary'?" Vader asked.

Turtle drew in a long breath as she thought, recalling up recent events that actually did get someone hurt more than necissary. "Like, if you're trying to take a blow for someone so they don't get hurt, and then they do something really stupid like interfere so they end up getting hurt anyway? Yeah. Don't feel bad about that at all. But if that person got hurt and you knew that they were gonna, but didn't even try to do anything, that's not good."

She wrinkled her nose a little. "I don't think that really answers the question, does it?...Most likely, people are gonna get hurt no matter what. But, if people you care for are involved, you do what you can to soften the blow..."

"And if your efforts to soften the blow make the person you care about angry?" Vader said. "Do you do it anyway?"

"Yes," Turtle said, although she was certain that nothing she could do would ever make Angela angry, not even when she tried. "If they get angry at you, then it's their fault for being too stupid to get that you were trying to help them. They'll come around eventually. And, if not, you're probably better off without 'em."

If Turtle Wexler cared about getting people angry at her, Turtle Wexler would never get anything done.

"Such an attitude will...serve you well," Vader commented before spinning on his heel and walking away.

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