fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, September 13]

"Today we discuss lying," Anakin said as he closed the classroom door precisely on time. "Everyone lies. 'Of course that doesn't make your butt look big.' 'You like her, I like her.' 'I'm totally okay with you moving on.' 'Everything's fine, why do you ask?' It's how the world goes around because no one wants to be trapped in a conversation where someone whines at you for hours on end about how awful their life is."

He looked around the room. "Trust me. Everyone's life is terrible. They're just not telling you about it. Be grateful."

He reached onto his desk for a piece of paper. "Today we're conducting an exercise to see how well you pass this particular social ritual, then we'll discuss whether you think it is necessary. We're playing two truths and a lie. I'll tell you three things about myself and you have to decide which one is the falsehood. Then you'll all tell three things and we'll see how well you can either read each other or keep things hidden."

He gave them a small smile. "I'm very good at this." He schooled his face to absolute neutrality, put his mental blocks up to bar the Jedi in the room from gaining an advantage, then recited: "I've never been beaten in one-on-one space flight combat. I'm not afraid of anything. I named my children after people I met in Fandom." His eyes challenged them to call him out. "Who's next?"

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Ping in with your three things and everyone else can guess.

"I've never been beaten in one-on-one space flight combat. I'm not afraid of anything. I named my children after people I met in Fandom." Which one, based on what your character knows about Anakin, seems not to fit?

Does lying serve a purpose? When does it stop being a tool and start being a crutch?

Qui-Gon loves to talk. Don't you, Padawan?

Because he's all about the small talk.

Ping down here if you're looking for detention.

Princess Irulan Corrino

"I'm going to be the Empress of the Known Universe. I love headdresses. I interact with people very well." Irulan clasped her hands and waited for anyone to contradict her.

River Tam

Irulan assessed what she knew of Anakin, he was a brilliant pilot so there was merit to his boast about never losing and his attitude about certain things reminded her of battle hardened Saudukars so she could also believe that he feared nothing so that left...

"You lied about naming your children after the people you met in Fandom."

River smiled mysteriously. "I corrected my older brother's spelling when I was three. I've won prices for my apple sculptures. I can kill you with my brain."

Irulan was to be Empress, yes. Irulan loved headdresses, yes. Much as River appreciated Irulan, her social skills wasn't the best. Not that River minded. "Last statement is a lie."

Irulan smiled wryly, "It's that obvious?"

"Deceit is a natural tool of statecraft," Irulan quoted, "Sometimes one must deceive the populace in order to help the greater good. But when done in excess to excuse everything or becomes the easiest choice of the two lying becomes a problem and not a tool."

River just smiled sweetly in reply.

Irulan pondered this, she knew about River's mental abilities, Irulan heard stories of Bene Gesserits who has such mental control that they could kill people with their mind plus there was the myth of the Kwisatz Haderach to think of. and knew she was smart but Irulan didn't know *how* smart and she has yet to see River's sculptures. Then she remembered the horrific taste of the strawberry sandwiches. Much as she liked River that would forever be seared in her memory.

And so...

"Your second statement is a lie?" She guessed.

Irulan sighed, "I have to work on that." Then she smiled, "I am glad you still stick with me regardless."

Apple sculptures were not the same as cooking. She had in fact won prices for them. She shook her head.

It was obvious. Even without the mindreading River wouldn't have had any trouble guessing. "Am not one of the people who find that particular skill of major importance," she replied. In fact, she quite liked Irulan.

"Ah," Irulan nodded, covering her surprise, she frowned in thought, "You corrected your brother's spelling?"

"I did," River confirmed with a nod.

It's a measure of how lonely her life was in Kaitain that the simple statement was able to lift a weight off Irulan's shoulders she didn't know she carried.

"I am very grateful for that," Irulan said, serious. From here on until the end of her life she River was now counted as one of the very few she considered true, close friends. And her father wondered why she preferred Fandom...

"You can't kill people with your brain?" She asked, astonished. This goes to show how much stock she still put into the old Bene Gesserit legends.

The power of River's mind were of listening, as far as she knew. Perhaps, had she stayed longer at the Academy, that would have changed. The statement was one she had once told Jayne to make him fear her, and it had worked well enough.

She shook her head. There were so many other ways she could kill anyway.

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