fandomhigh | Ethics [Tuesday, September 2, 2nd period]

"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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Penelope had a ready answer to this and waited patiently to see if anyone would partner with her.

"No king worth his station would govern like this," Agnes pointed out.

"I would hope not," Penelope replied, agreeing.

"Do you have an answer?" Agnes asked, still considering hers.

"Oh yes," she replied readily. "I would let him marry another woman."

"That's certainly the sensible answer," Agnes agreed. "It's too bad there isn't a trick to it. I wonder if we can have him choose the third door, the one he came in by?"

Penelope grinned. "I doubt the king would be so willing. A plot between the princess and her lover would have to have been planned. And even at that... the outcome might still be uncertain."

"True," Agnes agreed. "If the king's nuts enough to set up a system like this, he'd probably toss it out and just kill the man if we pissed him off." She bit her lip, thinking. "How much do you want to bet a man wrote this story?"

She laughed. "A man did indeed write this story. Not giving us the outcome only proves how morally inept and indecisive men can be."

"Oh, anyone can be morally inept and indecisive," Agnes disagreed. "I just feel sorry for the poor woman who's behind the door."

"Why do you feel sorry for the woman?" she asked.

Agnes blinked. "Because everyone -- the king, the princess, Master Skywalker, and everyone else -- are treating her as just a part of the puzzle. What has she done wrong, that she's given a 50% chance of marrying a criminal?"

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