fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, April 10]

"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."

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Like you've just been told to marry someone you just met.

If you think about feeding Anakin to a tiger, he'll know.

Which way do you think the princess went? Was the guy marrying some beauty, or totally tiger food?

Tiger chow or happily ever after?

Hello, Jo!

That's what he's here for.

For me? I dunno. I'd let him marry someone else, then plot her death.

I'm so with you on that.

Eve Levine

After class, Eve went to Anakin to explain why Savannah wasn't there -- because she'd promised she would and because she was sure he'd noticed.

Eve sat there, pondering the story and waiting for someone to approach her.

"Is she still in bed?" Anakin asked.

Someone was a tad obsessed with radio coverage.

"She is," Eve said. "Got up and about for a little bit yesterday to go to the art gallery opening, but then Johnny took her back to the dorm."

Anakin raised an eyebrow. "Art gallery was more important than class?" he commented dryly.

"She needed to get up and do something, most likely. She was probably going stir-crazy. And she was only there for..." Eve frowned, doing the math. "Fifteen, twenty minutes?"

She shrugged. "Knowing Savannah, she wanted to be here, too. She's got doctor's orders to relax until... I think she said Monday."

Jenny Sparks

Jo Harvelle

Jo was there! No longer male either.

Karal Austreben

The story just made Karal sad, and he rested his head on his hand while he listened.

"Anyone who loved another person would never let them die like that." Karal sounded very, very certain. "I would pick the door with the person behind it, and not the tiger, and the greater my love for the person, the easier that choice would be."

Hoshi Sato

Oh, wow, there was no good end to that story. Was there?

Rikku

Rikku shook her head. "That just seems like a heartless move on the king's part," she said. "Making his daughter pick?"

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Ethics [Thursday, April 10]

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