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?

[ashockingbitch]

"I'd tell him to pick the door with the girl," Jenny said. "Because if I could watch him be ripped to shreds by a tiger I didn't give a damn about him in the first place, and 'because I'm a jealous bint' is a stupid reason for anyone to die. Then once he's married the chick we can just carry on behind her back. Or maybe he falls in love at first sight with the chick behind the door, but that's a chance I'd have to take."