fandomhigh | Ethics [Monday, February 12, 5th period]

There was not, for once, a pissed off Lord of the Sith sweeping into the Ethics classroom. Instead, Katara bounced in a few minutes late.

"Hi! So Professor Vader went away and couldn't be here today. But I was given lesson plans so we can still have class." She grinned and looked far too pleased to be in charge. "I know we'll miss him horribly. We're supposed to talk about immortality today. And what you'd give up to get it for yourself or a loved one."

Katara wrinkled her nose, then consciously lowered her voice to a deep growl and tried to mimic Vader's stalk across the room. "Many beings have to make life-altering choices in order to avoid dying, or to try to avoid someone they love dying." She paused, trying both not to giggle and to remember the notes she had puzzled out. "They torture, they make pacts with the spirits, they sell their souls, they give up their faces." Katara had the mimicry in full swing and while a 15 year old girl could only sound so much like Vader, she had the walk and was giving the voice her best shot. "They massacre like the Fire Nation, clone themselves and try to stop time even though that's a silly idea."

She spun around, trying to be half as ~~pretentious~~ imposing as their teacher. "Today we are to discuss what you would give up in order to live forever." Katara glanced at her notes. "And 'you wouldn't' is not an acceptable answer."

[OOC: ~~Wait for~~ OCD ~~please~~ is up! I'm going to be going to bed in a short while, but I'll be up by 7:15 EST to play]

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Who or what would you give up for the promise of immortality?

Talk, pass notes, wonder just how much Katara is going to die when Vader hears about this...

Because she's friendlier than a Dark Lord! Not that it takes much.

Yeah...I don't know...

Schrodinger: *makes this offer aaaaall the damn time*

That would be Schrodinger.

Turning on his mini-tape recorder.

And leaving it on during the answers part.

Because this was going to be so useful later.

Walter Dornez

"There's a good chance that I actually can't answer that question."

Walter shook his head. "You don't understand. 'I wouldn't,' is the only answer. There is no such thing as immortality."

Schrodinger

Valentine

*is totally not in this class*

*but LOVES Katara's impression of Vader, hee!*

Valentine tilted his head in consideration, then shrugged. "I suppose that depends on what the immortality is worth. I wouldn't give up, say, eating to live forever, or my juggling, because then what would I have left? Forever without the things that make it worthwhile doesn't seem like a forever worth living, you know?"

HEE! YAY! Katara: *doesn't realise just how much she's going to die*

"Of course you can answer it," Katara said. "Doesn't mean it's going to come true. But then it probably won't come true for most people in the room too."

Steerpike

Katara crossed her arms. "And I didn't think there was such a thing as space and spaceships six weekend ago. How d'you know that's always true?"

Steerpike pondered this question for a good long while.

"There is . . . only one thing of any value that a person could give up," he said slowly. "And that is life. So the question is moot. You can't give up life in order to get eternal life. Well, not your own. Anything else is merely . . . small change."

She had to take a second to parse that answer. "Eating is your everything?"

"So you'd give up other people's lives without hesitation?" she asked.

"I hunt and kill things that are supposed to be immortal," Walter said folding his arms. "They aren't."

"Well, that's the problem. There's a fairly good chance that for me? It's already true."

"Well, not my everything, but there are only so many things that a person can enjoy in life, right?" Valentine shrugged faintly and tried to clarify his answer somewhat. "I think I might miss eating, or juggling, or riches, and that would cheapen the worth of eternity, overall, so whatever I gave up ultimately might not be worth forever without it."

Steerpike thought about this. "Yes, most likely. If I thought the offer was genuine. As I said, one's own life is the only thing that's truly important to any person. That's just human nature."

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