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

Comments

Re: Pair up!

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

"We aren't allowed to kill people for stupidity," Anemone said automatically, clearly parroting something she had been lectured about before. Unsuccessfully.

"If I was a tiger, this wouldn't be very fun. Wouldn't it be better if they actually let the tiger hunt? That way it's more entertaining for everyone. Well, everyone but the princess and her boyfriend."

Re: Pair up!

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Adah quirked an eyebrow at the seemingly automatic response from the pink haired fellow aide. No, they weren't. Not in most societies, anyway. Lives, no matter how stupid, or wasteful, or insipid, were supposedly precious, to be protected, prolonged, saved...

In most societies. Adah had seen another side of that fence, and her opinions in class so far reflected which side she liked better quite nicely. When it came time for her own life-saving Oath, she had her money on lightening striking.

She might avoid any responses down that line, though, keeping it simple with a noted, "And they already had their fun. Their fun is what got them into the whole mess to begin with."