Ethics, Friday, October 30, 2020

[sith_happened]

"Hello again, everyone," Anakin said, trying not to knock any of the jack o'lanterns over with the sweep of his cloak as he walked around the classroom. "I hope you enjoyed your time dumping me into very, very cold water."

He knew they had.

"Today we will not linger on the overwhelming guilt you no doubt feel over that--" he continued airily, "--so we'll move onto an ethics question instead. Since Halloween is tomorrow, we'll talk about stealing. Halloween, for those of you new to this dimension, is a day where people dress up in various costumes and then go door to door demanding candy."

It was clear by Anakin's expression that he had absolutely no idea why this was a thing.

"Sometimes people set out unsupervised bowls of candy, or tell you to help yourself to what they are holding out. My question to you is: do you feel obligated to only take a few and leave some for the people who will come behind you, or will you take it all?"

He could guess which way Eleanor was going to go.

Multidimensional Economics; Friday, First Period [10/30].

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Well, good news, everyone!" said Summer happily once the students were there, in the danger shop, in the classroom sim that was even more hilarious when doing something that a totally normal classroom would suffice for. "Thanks to one of your fellow classmate's very convincing arguments, we are actually going to have a movie day today. But it's not going to be a movie about economics. It's going to be a movie about spiders.

"Consider it a lesson in how even when you make a bargain, it's not always going to be quite what you expect.

"Also, I've actually been personally involved in an entire global economy being completely overtaken by telepathic alien spiders before," was she going to explain how involved? No, of course not, "so in a round-about kind of way, there is maybe some multidimensional economic value in this. I don't know. If you're feeling ambitious, maybe write a paper about it. I'll even read it and everything."

Until then, enjoy the movie day, kids.