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fandomhigh2009-09-02 11:29 pm
sith_happened) wrote in fandomhigh2009-09-02 11:29 pm
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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.
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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This was the reason why Zuko wanted her in this class.
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"Your question," Azula reminded him, "was about self-sacrifice, specifically about saving people and the futility that comes with it. I never had that problem."
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"You could have said so earlier," she told him. "There was the time my father discarded me like a useless tool and left me behind. How's that?"
Azula's tone was flippant. It was partly a facade, it was partly because she's come to terms with it. If by 'come to terms' one meant, 'I'll burn him the next time I'll see him.'
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"It sounds more like his problem than yours," he replied. "How did you react?"
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"The usual way a teenager would react to the situation," she answered. "Then I recovered."
Sort of. She still has bouts of temper she couldn't control.
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