Ethics [Thursday, April 10]

[sith_happened]

"There's a very famous story on this world," Anakin began. "Of the lady or the tiger. For those of you not from this world, the short version is there was a fictional king with his own sense of justice--instead of a court system, he had an arena with two doors. Behind one door was a beautiful woman, handpicked by the king. Behind the other was a tiger. If you chose the tiger, you were eaten and declared guilty. If you chose the lady, you were considered innocent and married the lady. The king didn't care about your previous marital status or sexual orientation, apparently."

He began pacing. "One day the king discovered that his daughter had been having an affair with someone far below her station, so the man was arrested and tossed into the arena. Now the princess knew which door has what behind it, and her lover looked up to her for advice. She had two choices: watch her love die, or marry another woman. The story ends with the princess telling him which door to open, but leaves us hanging as to what waited behind it."

Anakin smiled. "Your task today is two-fold. First, pair up with a classmate and decide what the princess did. Then tell me what you would have done in the princess's place."

Stranded - Plumb

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Re: What would you do?

[the_merriest]

"Either way, he'll never be yours again," Rikku said softly. "He'll either be dead or hers. So you send him to the door with a girl behind it and you hope she's not all that pretty and you hope he misses you and you hate her and you feel like someone's ripping all of your guts out. But ... picking the tiger? That's horrible. And selfish. And a hundred other things. And ... and I think even just ... being selfish, it would hurt more, watching him scream and run and be ripped apart. Even more than if he loved her and never looked back."