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Ethics [Thursday, April 24]

As Anakin paced around the Danger room, he looked like he hadn't really gotten a good night's sleep in a few days.

Which was very true. Spending time in a swamp wasn't great for the back.

"Welcome to your Ethics final," he said, pacing around the room. "I will provide you with a series of scenarios. Go through each and provide the answers that best fit what you have learned through this class. Then explain your choice."

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You arrive home after an extended period away to discover your mother has been kidnapped. She's presumed dead. What do you do?

a) Mourn and move on.
b) Brood about it constantly. Perhaps write poetry.
c) Ignore the idea that she might be dead and go after her yourself. Upon finding her remains, torch the village she was in.

You find out that your wife is pregnant, yay! But you also learn that she will die in childbirth. Less yay. What now?

Do you:

a) Make the most of the time you have left.
b) Look frantically for a cure. If this means doing unsavory things for slightly creepy people, so be it.
c) Like I'd ever get married. Here's how I see it going...

Curse those rebels and their stubbornness. You've captured one of their leaders but she won't tell you where their secret base is. Conveniently enough, you're in a mobile superweapon that can destroy planets. The options are fairly open...

Do you:

a) Call it a day. We'll capture another rebel some time. Maybe they'll tell us.
b) Drag her out onto the command deck and threaten to blow up her planet.
c) Drag her out onto the command deck and actually blow up her planet.

There is a dangerous vampire loose on the island. He should probably be stopped. Problem is, you don't know where he is, or how to fight vampires.

Do you:

a) Stay inside and try to come up with a plan that involves daylight, stakes, and automatic flamethrowers.
b) Go outside doused in meat scent and get killed.
c) Go outside unprepared and get killed.
d) Go outside prepared and get killed anyway.

Yes, Anakin thought these were your only options.

Hi, Jo!

He's in a pretty quiet mood.

I'm afk for most of the day (yay househunting) so if you need Anakin for anything, SP is king. Thanks for being such an awesome class!

Savannah Levine

Savannah's breath caught at this scenario and for a long time she had trouble with it.

I mourn, she finally wrote out, her hand shaking a little. I mourn and I do everything I can to make sure I know her fate without question... and I try to live a life she would be proud of me for. But you never move on from that.

After all, she had watched Eve gunned down in front of her once...

Edited 2008-04-24 03:48 (UTC)

Anemone

This final was already messing with her emotions, and she blamed what happened the last few weeks for it.

If I were to become pregnant and find out that I was fated to die ~~and that would just be like the Fates to pull something like that since they seem to like screwing with my family so much~~, I would hope that it was more important to my husband that we enjoy what time we have left and that he be able to look back on our life before with joy and share those memories with our child.

Reno

a) and then e) You call Mr. Skywalker to discuss a spell that you have found in your learnings and ask him if he thinks it is wise or if he could help you with the things needed for this.

She did remember that he had said he would help her if she had a question about her magic and her spells, after all.

Reno eyed the question for a moment before crossing out 'Mourn and' and circling question a.

Life goes on. Boo hoo.

There is no correct answer to this question that I can in good conscience give.

Jenny Sparks

Jenny circled A and wrote, My mother was kind of crazy anyway. Also, stupid iceberg.

Reno couldn't see himself wearing a wedding band any time in the near future... if at all. But sure, he'd answer this one, too. B. B was a good answer.

Don't really get the whole 'cure for death in childbirth' thing, because I'm no scientist or whatever. But sure, for someone I care about enough to get hitched to? I'll add to the list of 'unsavory' crap done for creepy people. Wouldn't be a first.

Jenny circled C and wrote, Under these circumstances I would get one of these amazing things called an abortion. Even relatively less progressive governments will allow those to save the life of the mother.

Great, more essays. Right now, Anemone really hated both her ethics classes.

I've never had a family, so I honestly have no idea, she wrote. I'm sure I had parents at one point, but I don't remember them at all. The closest thing I ever had to a human father was Colonel Dewey, and if someone kidnapped him, I'd probably wish them luck.

People leave and die. It happens. The only death I've ever mourned was TheEND, but he made his choice, and it's not my place to second guess it. Even if I could, which is really darn hard to do when you're bonded with your LFO. I knew what he was thinking and why he did it, so it's hard to drum up the rage to go torch villages or whatever. I did get my revenge by preventing the end of the world, and I think he'd like that.

I haven't moved on, because you can't move on from something like that. He was my partner and my friend and the only family I had for years. We shared a soul, a mind, and a will, and that's not something you can just walk away from. If I could, then I wouldn't have deserved to be his partner in the first place. You mourn and continue, but never, ever, move on.

Answer A.

Reno just stared at the paper for a long, long while.

...

And then, very tentatively, circled b. And put a tick-mark next to c. Which he scribbled out. And then ticked again.

Depends what the rebels did.

Edited 2008-04-24 04:04 (UTC)

Romeo Montague

B. If she calls my bluff, time for Plan B. Plan B is named 'Midnighter.' But there is no need to blow up a whole planet. Ever. ~~Italy is another story.~~

Reno snorted when he read the answers to this one. At least the exam ended on a humorous note. Or something.

He didn't circle anything.

Can 'wait around until someone else figures out what to do about the vampire' be an option? It ain't my job to do the thinking, or the getting killed.

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