Ethics [Tuesday, April 21, 2nd period]

[sith_happened]

"Welcome to your Ethics final," Anakin said, pacing around the classroom. "I will provide you with a series of scenarios. You tell me which option you would pick, and why. Since this is Ethics, there are no black and white correct answers to anything. What matters to me is that you have some sort of reason for your choice."

He might have glanced toward Marco. "If your logic is faulty or snide or clearly half-assed, that's when I will become...unhappy."

Comments

Sign in [4/21]

[sith_happened]

With your most studious icon!

Re: Sign in [4/21]

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

Dor

Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[sith_happened]

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

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.
d) None of the above.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

d. None of the Above

e. Approach Good Magician Humfrey and ask Mother's current location. Go on adventure and learn a lot about yourself on the journey

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Well, Chuck never really had a mother so he had to imagine the scenario featuring his father being kidnapped instead.

Which would be why he gave such a dick answer.

a) Really not worth all the fuss of going after him her.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[intraspective]

Ino contemplated her options, doubting that he'd be impressed, but hey... he'd asked.

a) Mourn and move on. Obviously. And hire other ninja to go kill her killer for me because Hokage-sama wouldn't authorize a mission like that for me and I've got no wish for ANBU to come after me.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[not-fangirl.livejournal.com]

A.) Revenge won't help on a mission. Unless I've been assigned the duty, I wouldn't make a move on whomever killed her.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[wantstodirect]

Tony chewed on the end of his pen while he considered his answer. He hadn't talked to his mother in four years and they hadn't parted on great terms. Still, he wouldn't abandon her if she was in danger. (Don't ask about his dad.) If she were already dead, though, there wasn't any point in revenge.

a) Mourn and move on.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco read the question three times before answering.

a. Mourn and move on. Then, when you discover that she is in fact alive, fight with everything you have to bring her back. But when the choice comes between her or the world, choose the world. She'll agree with you. But keep fighting, because she might actually survive a plunge down a cliff. Then, lie to your friends and go and try to rescue your dad who is now in trouble. And then your mom. And feed your step-mom's dog to a nearby alien.

And this is actually what I did, and would do if I had to again. If you don't believe me, I will bring in my actual mother and she will back up this story.

Oh, and for the record? Every single one of my answers has always been the truth.

He might have had a death wish.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

d) None of the above.

I wouldn't be satisfied with presuming she was dead. I'd have to know one way or another. If she was still alive, I would do whatever I could to save her, short of slaughtering a village. If she were dead, I don't know what I would do, but it wouldn't be that.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[i_vanquish_evil]

Van Helsing hates this test already.

He writes:

I have no frame of reference with which to effectively respond to this question; however, the most appropriate choice is (c). The lives of those one cares about are important - precious even, to some - and there is need of locating the kidnapper and convincing him or her of the error of those ways.

Or so I've been told by those previously charged with my education. In my experience, kidnappers are frequently irrational bastards and negotiation is rarely successful. Admittedly I only have three scenarios from which to draw this experience, but negotiation was not an option in any of them. And for fear of wandering off topic, removal of the threat proved far more effective and ethical, as the bastards refused to see the error of their ways in any case.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

d) None of the Above

I would work with local authorities to find her.

It was kind of obvious that Joan was a cop's kid sometimes.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Well, great. Hurley know was worried that he hadn't called his mom in a week or so, and he's been away for an extended period.

Boy was a little too impressionable, sometimes.

He wrote down his answer.

D. I mean, I kinda like answer C up until the village torching. I couldn't do that. Besides, it's not like an entire village really does group kidnappings. That'd be one weird community watch group. But I couldn't just give up on my mom. Even if I couldn't save her, maybe I could at least... get her home for a proper Catholic burial and stuff.

And now, Hurley was a wee bit sad, thinking about his mom like that.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

a) or b). No. She didn't really see herself as the poetry type. And in a way, well... she'd already done a.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[future_sandworm]

d.

I would mourn her death, but not before her death was avenged and the water of her murderer taken.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter smirked when he read the question.

d) Clearly you've never met my mother. On the odd chance she got kidnapped there's no way she'd go down without a fight. My brother and I would do whatever we had to in order to get her back. But not burning a village just for the heck of it. There's no point there.

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela frowned at the question, trying to figure out how precisely to answer it.

Modified (A). As I have no significant emotional attachment to my mother I suspect that my mourning would be pro-forma.

She read that over a few times and decided that it did indeed sound better than "(D) I wouldn't care at all".

Re: Scenario #1 [Ethics]

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

Okay, ow, K-Mart was not loving this question.

A. It's what I did. Well, I didn't go away for a while, but... after everything started happening, I didn't know where my parents were for a couple weeks. Then I found out they were dead, had died trying to get back to the store to save me.

Scenario #2 [Ethics]

[sith_happened]

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

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...
d) None of the above

Re: Scenario #2 [Ethics]

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

b.

Of course for Dor it meant going to see Good Magician Humfrey again and probably having to wash his socks.

Re: Scenario #2 [Ethics]

[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

He wasn't going to get pregnant, goddammit. That kid of Dean and his was totally lying! Dean was so the girl.

Luckily the answer was an obvious one.

c) She's probably being dramatic because she wants money or something. If she dies, she dies. If she lives then we'll do a DNA test for the kid and go from there.

He was going to fail this test, wasn't he?

Re: Scenario #2 [Ethics]

[intraspective]

d) Abort the child, duh. We can always adopt.

Ino was... not winning empathy points. Ino did not care.

Scenario #3 [Ethics]

[sith_happened]

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...

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.
d) None of the above.

Re: Scenario #3 [Ethics]

[talks2objects.livejournal.com]

d.
e. Go to Good Magician Humfrey and ask where the secret rebel base is. Then go on an adventure and learn a lot about yourself during the journey.

Talk to Anakin [4/21]

[sith_happened]

Last chance before summer!

Re: Talk to Anakin [4/21]

[i_vanquish_evil]

Van Helsing nods once, politely, to the stern teacher, out of respect, because, despite the trip to detention awarded to him during the very first class, he found the discussions infinitely more enjoyable than anything he was forced to sit through during his previous sessions of education.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Yay finals!

Re: OOC

[weetuskenraider]

Hurley's roomie appreciates his reasoning for scenario #1. Just saying. ^_^