Ethics [Thursday, September 3, 1st period]

[sith_happened]

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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Re: Answer the questions! [Ethics 9/3]

[sith_happened]

Anakin's lips quirked up in a humorless smile. "No. Any reason they picked you, or were you in the wrong place at the wrong time?"

Re: Answer the questions! [Ethics 9/3]

[longislandiceme]

He'd kind of thought that was the case. Still, it never hurt to ask, right?

"I think they had a list of criteria and I happened to match," he said with a shrug.

Re: Answer the questions! [Ethics 9/3]

[sith_happened]

"That was...organized...of them," Anakin said, still sounding a little confused. "Are human sacrifices common in your world?"

Re: Answer the questions! [Ethics 9/3]

[longislandiceme]

Bobby was beginning to realize he'd maybe put his foot in it a little, at least insofar as pretending to be a normal kid from a normal reality.

"Iiii don't think so," he said, after a moment's thought. "Definitely never thought it'd happen to me till it, uh. Did." That... could describe a lot of things about his life, really.

Re: Answer the questions! [Ethics 9/3]

[sith_happened]

"Did they provide any reasoning for why they were trying to sacrifice you?" he asked.

Re: Answer the questions! [Ethics 9/3]

[longislandiceme]

"Trying to free this big ugly frost giant dude from another dimension or something," Bobby said with a nod. "My world's one of those with 'weird stuff' apparently." Not that he'd thought of it that way before Fandom.

Re: Answer the questions! [Ethics 9/3]

[sith_happened]

Anakin's eyes went just a little wide. "Huh," he said eloquently. "I'm glad it didn't work?" he offered.

Re: Answer the questions! [Ethics 9/3]

[longislandiceme]

"Me too!" Bobby nodded emphatically. "I'm a fan of being alive. One of my many quirks."