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]

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"The Wizard sent Dorothy to kill the Witch," he explained, as if it had happened to other people he didn't know, "though the actual killing was accidental."

The Wizard had other crimes on his head, of course, but that was a matter for another class.

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

[sith_happened]

Anakin frowned. "So Dorothy accidentally assassinated someone? Sounds difficult to accomplish."

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

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Most people don't have an allergy to water," he had to admit, "and the Witch's broom was apparently on fire."

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

[sith_happened]

Anakin winced. "Not a nice way to go out."

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

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Nanny wouldn't actually let me go up to see. Said it was a sight that could only be borne by a sinner, if I remember right."

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

[sith_happened]

More names Anakin didn't know. "And who was she?"

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

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"The woman who raised the Witch from when she was a baby. She sort of looked after me as well. She was an old Munchkinlander, a Lurlinist. She's crazy and half-blind by now, but she'd cleaned things up in the tower the last time I went back."

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

[sith_happened]

More words Anakin didn't have definitions for. He ignored them, choosing instead to nod at Liir and move on.