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Ye Shall Be As Gods? - Class 2, Period 3
"Last week," Juli began, once all the students had come in and settled down, "we discussed personal limits and ways to grow beyond them. Now, we move outwards onto bigger topics. Our topic for today is, perhaps, one of the most impressive natural limitations. Of all the boundaries that our various worlds share, one is constant and that one is – Death. Specifically, we will be taking a close look at resurrection."
"From the beginning of time people have been interested in cheating death, escaping that final equalizer that renders us all the same." Juli looked over her class. "What is it, do you think, that drives people to try and deny that limit? To snatch people back who’ve already gone. What arrogance is it that makes us think we’ve a right to say when anyone may live or die?"
"What arrogance could drive each of you to try and cheat death? Take back from death and have someone live again. What consequences to bringing someone back from the dead can you foresee? If no one can die what happens to society as a whole? It’s all very well to say ‘I want to bring back this person’ but then, someone else will wonder ‘well, why can’t I do the same?’ and, as for all things, it will grow from there until letting someone go becomes impossible."
"If no one dies, then nothing ever changes. Each individual death hurts someone – but, in the long run, a cessation of death would hurt everyone. There is no room for growth in a world without death. It is the other side of life, and no less vital. People know this," a faint smile that’s almost sad, "but this knowledge does not stop us from making the attempt time after time. What is it that makes us so determined to go ahead no matter what the cost?"
"All things, in time, will pass," she said quietly, "it is something that we must discover over and over again – and something that will never be fully learned. Please split into groups of two and discuss the consequences of resurrection, both on personal level and on a societal whole."
"I am, as always, available after class if you have need of me."
[Wait for the OCD is up! Have at it!]
"From the beginning of time people have been interested in cheating death, escaping that final equalizer that renders us all the same." Juli looked over her class. "What is it, do you think, that drives people to try and deny that limit? To snatch people back who’ve already gone. What arrogance is it that makes us think we’ve a right to say when anyone may live or die?"
"What arrogance could drive each of you to try and cheat death? Take back from death and have someone live again. What consequences to bringing someone back from the dead can you foresee? If no one can die what happens to society as a whole? It’s all very well to say ‘I want to bring back this person’ but then, someone else will wonder ‘well, why can’t I do the same?’ and, as for all things, it will grow from there until letting someone go becomes impossible."
"If no one dies, then nothing ever changes. Each individual death hurts someone – but, in the long run, a cessation of death would hurt everyone. There is no room for growth in a world without death. It is the other side of life, and no less vital. People know this," a faint smile that’s almost sad, "but this knowledge does not stop us from making the attempt time after time. What is it that makes us so determined to go ahead no matter what the cost?"
"All things, in time, will pass," she said quietly, "it is something that we must discover over and over again – and something that will never be fully learned. Please split into groups of two and discuss the consequences of resurrection, both on personal level and on a societal whole."
"I am, as always, available after class if you have need of me."
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