Ethics [Monday, March 11, 5th period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was leaning against the desk as the Ethics class walked in. A crumpled version the syllabus was in his hand.

"I hope you all stayed dry this weekend and kept your fish throwing to a minimum," he said. "The syllabus says that we're supposed to begin a discussion of the seven deadly sins today, but I want to get to know you a little bit first."

He was supposed to be a new instructor, after all.

"What manner of action do you find unforgivable?" he asked, his voice and manner completely unreadable. "Treason against your country or homeworld? Stealing from the defenseless? Slavery? Murder? Let's not worry about extenuating circumstances for the moment. If I were to tell you I killed children, most of you would recoil, correct? Where do you draw that line in your head? How far does someone have to go before you say 'that's wrong and there's no getting past it'?"

He avoided John's eyes as he paced around the room, finally pointing at a student. "Go ahead."

Comments

Sign in [March 12]

[sith_happened]

All neat like soldiers.

Possibly brave, too, but Anakin hated that song.

Re: Sign in [March 12]

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Schrodinger

Re: Sign in [March 12]

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean Winchester

During the lecture

[sith_happened]

Talk, pass notes, et cetera. But do it quietly, please.

Re: During the lecture

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle just might be taking careful notes on where everyone line is. For future reference.

Re: During the lecture

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean doodled as he listened. Somehow he thought Winchester limits were going to be different than the norm.

Re: During the lecture

[likethegun]

Sam nudged Dean before leaning closer to him. "Hey."

Re: During the lecture

[strahl-pirate.livejournal.com]

Balthier paused in the doodling of various fanciful weaponry on his writing tablet, smirking. If only Professor Skywalker knew what a loaded question that was.

Answer the discussion question

[sith_happened]

Where do you draw the line and say "okay, that's not right"?

Re: Answer the discussion question

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

"Are we ignoring context, then?"

Re: Answer the discussion question

[sith_happened]

"Let's assume that someone is not killing someone else because his daughter is being held hostage or he's been programmed in some way to do so. He's in full possession of his faculties and he is doing terrible things. Is that wrong?"

Re: Answer the discussion question

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara was surprisingly uncomfortable with the question given that she had spent the past week in the company of someone she used to point to as the epitome of unforgivable.

"Attacking people who can't fight back," she said in a small voice.

Re: Answer the discussion question

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded slowly.

He'd done that.

"Would it matter if they believed that attacking was a matter of survival?" he asked quietly.

Re: Answer the discussion question

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John winced but gave his answer nonetheless. "When innocents will be harmed if you don't stop."

Re: Answer the discussion question

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle gave her answer a lot of very careful consideration before she answered. "I'd say...that the line is drawn between people who are aware and people that aren't. Killing children is so detestable because they're innocent; usually, they haven't consciously entered into a situation where they know they could be taken advantage of, so taking advantage of them would be wrong. So, yeah. That."

Re: Answer the discussion question

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if you can just ignore the context," Dean said.

Re: Answer the discussion question

[likethegun]

"My personal line is probably at hurting or killing innocent people," Sam said. "As opposed to those who aren't innocent, I mean."

Re: Answer the discussion question

[fates_jaye]

"Just don't be bitchy," Jaye says.

She kind of operates on a different level than like, most of Fandom.

Re: Answer the discussion question

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly thought about her answer for a long time before responding. She thought about her parents and Alex and how she felt about what they had done.

"I don't know where my line is," she finally said.

Re: Answer the discussion question

[strahl-pirate.livejournal.com]

"I believe that's difficult to say. There are always extenuating circumstances," he shrugged thinking back to his own experiences. "I suppose you can only look back at what you did and ask yourself if the end justified the means."

Re: Answer the discussion question

[irulan-atreides.livejournal.com]

Irulan frowned. "It is difficult to say but I suppose, if someone hurt people I consider friends I would be cross."

Understatement.

Re: Answer the discussion question

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentines tended not to have much in the way of morals- if it was good for a Valentine, then it was just plain good- so it took a bit of consideration before this particular one managed to drum up a reply.
"Not right would be..." he paused to think a moment more, "not admitting that you've done wrong, even if you know you have."
Not that he was referring to himself, of course. Anything that might relate to this particular answer was entirely his tower's fault and he was entirely in the right.

Talk to Anakin after class

[sith_happened]

His house is still pretty wet. He isn't heading home for a bit.

Re: Talk to Anakin after class

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara had heard about Anakin from Molly so she was much less tentative approaching him after class than she would have been approaching Darth Vader a few weeks before. "Excuse me?"

OOC

[sith_happened]

I'm down with OOC, yeah, you know me...