Applied Ethics A - Friday, Period 1 [20.07.07]

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

The Danger Shop again, and again, it looked like a classroom. "Welcome to the second class. No lecture today, just go on through there." Harriet gestured to the door at one end of the room. "You'll find a room with two doors. Once you're in there, pair up and one member of each pair go through a different door." She sipped her tea and smiled benignly. "Go on, off with you. I'll see you when you're done."

Once through the first door, the students would find themselves in a large empty room. White walls, white floors, white ceilings, no furniture, and two doors - one red, one blue. There were also a number of people milling about who watched the students curiously as they entered, paired up, and went through the doors.

After everyone had finished the exercise, they were passed back into the classroom. "Now, wasn't that interesting? That was a little game called the Prisoner's Dilemma, and it's all about making choices - you can cooperate with the other person by remaining silent, or you can defect, by giving evidence against them. Some people argue that the only rational decision is to look out for yourself by talking, however if both people do that, both lose. If each decides to protect the other, both win, which I think everyone would agree would be the best outcome, and if one speaks and the other is silent, the speaker wins and the silent one loses," she looked around the class, "as you just discovered for yourself. You can never be absolutely certain what the other person will choose -- if you choose to be silent, you have to trust they will do the same, and that's not always as easy to do as it is to say."

Harriet came around the front of the desk and handed out some information. "Which you can read or not as you like. Now, what do you all think? Why did you make the choice you did? Would you make the same one again? Would your choice differ depending on your guilt or innocence? What if you'd had a friend, a family member, a loved one, or an enemy as your co-accused? I'd like you to spend the rest of the class in discussion, please." She smiled and once more sat down. "If you have any questions, feel free to ask."


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[ooc: ETA: It is up to you whether your character is innocent or guilty of what they are charged with, within the context of the exercise. It's long this week. First thing - please, please do not pair up if you're not going to go through the other two threads - they will be short, probably not demand much interaction beyond a handful of pings - but both members of the pair have to complete the run for either to finish. If you want to go through, and you don't get a partner, don't worry, those NPCs will be happy to pair up with you, but I'd much rather see student pairs! Makes it more fun and saves my brain.

Second thing - going through the doors. The first person in the pair goes through the red, the second through the blue. eg: Dawn pings in to the pair up thread, Luke pings to her. Dawn goes through the red, Luke through the blue. This makes it much easier for me to keep track of the pair's choices. Pick a door! Any door! As long as you each go through a different one!

Third thing - Instructions! Pair up in the first thread - feel free to have a bit of a talk, but you can go ahead and ping them in to the red door or blue door thread once you have a pair. In the 'door' thread, I'll ping you with a link to the next once we're done. Don't ping into it in advance, please, or it won't work!]

[Please hold for OCD is up. *plays Girl From Impanema* That's enough of that!]

Comments

Sign In [AE 20.07]

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

In the collapsing manner, please.

Re: Sign In [AE 20.07]

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn Hood

Re: Sign In [AE 20.07]

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt Halliwell

Pair Up

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

After leaving the classroom, the students find themselves in the aforementioned big empty room with two doors. Find a partner, then each go through the appropriate door.

Re: Pair Up

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn looked around for a partner.

Re: Pair Up

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt glanced at Gwynn. "Want to partner up?" he asked.

Re: Pair Up

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Partner, partner, partner. Turtle shifted her weight from one foot to the other as she looked around for someone to partner up with.

Re: Pair Up

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Hey, want to be partners for this?" Charlie asked, looking at the doors curiously.

Re: Pair Up

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn waited for a partner.

Leave the white room

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Through one of the below doors: red or blue.

Red Door

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

It's completely dark on the other side of that door.

Re: Red Door

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt took the red pill went through the red door.

Re: Red Door

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Charlie blinked around in the darkness, trying to see where to go.

Blue Door

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, it's just as dark behind this door as the other one.

Re: Blue Door

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn went throught the blue door.

Court Room

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

It's all dark wood and stern expression, and the judge is peering down at you disapprovingly.

The Bailiff hustles you over to stand behind the defence table, to await your sentencing.

Re: Court Room

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn is still not talking as she looks around at everything going on.

Re: Court Room

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

And Turtle peered back up at the judge with stern confidence. She wasn't about to allow herself to be a victim of a corrupt court. Not on her watch. She could beat Sam Westing in court; this guy couldn't touch her. Or Charlie.

After the Exercise - Discussion

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Talk about the exercise, the questions Harriet asked, or anything else that takes your fancy.

Or you could just scowl at the person who sold you down the river.

Re: After the Exercise - Discussion

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I think I would make the same decision I did this time."

Re: After the Exercise - Discussion

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Yay!" Charlie held up her hand for a high-five to Turtle. "I knew you wouldn't take the deal!"

Talk to the TA

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Though I understand she is MIA this week.

Talk to Harriet

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

She is here, and would be happy to talk with you.

OOC

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Because I am not having the world ending on my watch!

Re: OOC

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

i am sorry, i have to handwave this. combination of harry potter AND the Sabbath pretty much does me in. :)