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."

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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.

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[rocksthescarf.livejournal.com]

Easy one, duh.

c) She probably would just lie to you anyway. At least blowing up the planet would be a lesson to her: Don't lie to people who are capable of blowing up planets.

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[intraspective]

Ino was pretty sure by now that her answers were so not what she was supposed to be picking.

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer though. Besides, it was being honest.

b) Drag her out onto the command deck and threaten to blow up her planet. If that doesn't work, torture them to within an inch of their lives then threaten again. If that doesn't work then blow up their planet. Don't make threats you don't have the nerve to back up.

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[not-fangirl.livejournal.com]

D.) Use other methods of persuasion. No one can hold out forever.

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[wantstodirect]

Tony knew he'd never blow up a planet, so (c) was out. He was also pretty sure he couldn't convince anyone he'd blow up a planet, so that let (b) out, too. So what would he do if he needed info from someone?

Duh. Get Henry to get it. Henry could do scary like nobody else.

d) None of the above

I'd have someone more intimidating than me question her.

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

B. Go all the way to powering up the weapon and even shooting at a nearby moon or something.

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[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

a) Call it a day. We'll capture another rebel some time. Maybe they'll tell us.

Assuming that all non-torturous methods of trying to convince her have been taken, it has to be called off before there are threats of blowing planets up.

Why am I on a planet-destroying superweapon anyway?

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[i_vanquish_evil]

If I choose (c), I'm afraid that my 'guardians' (so to speak) will find out and feel the need to 'reeducate' me. (Though I have managed to accomplish that particular choice by accident during simulated scenarios.)

I choose (b), because, while it lacks the definitiveness of (c), it maintains the ethics of not actually destroying an entire world, which has been viewed as an 'evil' thing to do by many. The threat of violence and destruction is more easily forgiven. Though the violence is occasionally more fun. *Er, I didn't write that last part.

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[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

This one was a little harder.

b) Drag her out onto the command deck and threaten to blow up her planet.

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[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley made a face. Man this test was messed up.

D) I would, like, play the good cop. And threaten to send... pinatas and candy at her planet, if she helped us. If some really angry dude wanted to alternate and threaten to blow up the planet, I guess that'd be okay, but I couldn't do it.

Re: Scenario #3 [Ethics]

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

b) The threat might be enough. If not, call it a day. No torture or blowing up planets.

Re: Scenario #3 [Ethics]

[future_sandworm]

d.

Use a better method of questioning, or a better strategy altogether. While the deaths of millions are sometimes a necessary price to pay, blowing up planets in uncertain circumstances like this would be the sign of a ruler too desperate or too eager to induce fear.

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

d) If I have the power to blow up a planet then I probably have a lot of other powers that aren't as universe-shattering as that one. Plus if I absolutely HAD to get this information then this might be one of those times when I'd try to use mind-reading to see if I could ferret it out.

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[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Blowing up planets sounded a bit like overkill. Triela didn't mind overkill sometimes, but that was a bit much even for her.

(D). You need the information, so you can't give up. You can't make threats you don't intend to follow through on. And blowing up a planet is likely to galvanize opposition to such a degree that you lose in the end anyway. Of course classic physical and chemical interrogation techniques would presumably work, so I'd go with those.

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[likethestore.livejournal.com]

B. And then if it doesn't work... start beating her up? It's not the greatest option, but it doesn't involve blowing up a planet.