fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, September 3, 1st period]

Anakin walked into his classroom precisely on time and gave the students assembled there an appraising glance as the door clicked shut behind him. If you were late, you weren't getting in. "I'm Master Skywalker," he said in a voice that was intended to carry, "this is Ethics, and we're going to skip the introductions--I'll figure out who you are--and move straight to our first discussion."

He paced around the room, cloak flaring out behind him, as he handed out the syllabus. "Today's topic," he said, pointing to the top of the page. "Self sacrifice: knowing the difference between saving people and being a pretentious twit."

"Any time I ask a a group of people what they would do to save someone they love, they all blither on about how they would set the world on fire, lie, cheat, steal, kill, die, et cetera, et cetera. I've been at this school too long to believe that half of you haven't already been put into this situation and I'm in no mood to hear adolescent ramblings about how wonderful you were or might hypothetically be. Instead I want you to give me a concrete example of a time you admitted to yourself that a problem cannot be solved, and that to sacrificing yourself wasn't a statement, but merely pointless?" His gaze swept the room. "How long does it take for you to realize you can't fix everything by yourself?"

He would hear the replies and choose his TAs from there.

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See, McCoy had quite a few examples if he took his experiences as a doctor into account but he wasn't quite sure if he wanted to be explaining that in front of the whole class. So he decided to share a more recent experience.

"A friend of mine was, uh--" Vulcan neck pinched and launched out of a shuttle onto an ice planet. "--forcibly removed from our ship and I realized fighting the decision wasn't going to do any good. I would have probably ended up in the same situation as him if I fought back and I was needed where I was so I just let it happen."

And then he bitched at Spock when it was too late to do anything about it and used a truly disturbing horse metaphor. Like you do.

"The captain of the ship forcibly removed your friend and thrown into the water to be smashed against the shore?" Azula asked, then added without waiting for the answer, "How commendable."

Um, no it's not, Azula.

Bones raised an eyebrow. "Thrown out into space, actually, onto another planet."

Because that made it better.

Now that was some impressive disciplining methods.

"I should take note of that," she remarked. Now, if only she could find a way to do something like that.

Emma was just going to snicker, because after class on Tuesday, she could guess who had been thrown off the ship.

And she was under the impression that he probably deserved it.

Bones followed the sound of snickering and was not at all surprised to see it was coming from Emma. He smirked and gave her a "Well, what can you do?" shrug.

"Water ship or space ship?" Anakin asked, visions of people being airlocked running through his mind.

"Space ship. They launched him out of an escape pod," Bones said. "He landed on an ice planet."

It hadn't been all bad. That's how they found Scotty, after all.

"At least they used an escape pod," Anakin replied with a tiny smile. "There are harsher ways to teach lessons."

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