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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"It's not like a princess is going to be allowed to pick her husband anyway," Dōjima answered, bored. "Have him marry the other woman, and deal with the rest of it once you're on the throne and Daddy isn't."

It was what she had planned for if (more like when) her father arranged a marriage for her, anyway.

"Do you think he'd wait for you, even married to someone else?" Anakin asked. "What if he moves on before your father lives out to a long and healthy, non-poison assisted old age?"

"A king behaving like this isn't going to live out a 'long and healthy' life," she answered. "If the population doesn't overthrow him, someone else will."

"If he did move on, well, I don't know. I guess it would be a good thing I didn't elope with him or whatever, if he's that fickle. I can always make life miserable for him later, and I probably saved the tiger indigestion."

Anakin bit back a snort of laughter. "Can't have tiger indigestion," he agreed.

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