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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"Well, I suppose it depends," she mused. "If they ask for help, that's one thing, but I prefer winning, not idiotic self-sacrifice." Although Emma's definition of 'asking for help' was special. If it was entertaining, she'd meddle, since clearly it was a subconscious cry for attention.

"So you only help out if you like the odds," Anakin said. "Interesting."

"Or if it's interesting," she confessed. "It depends on my mood, but either way, I'm not one for going into a fight I know I can't win."

She wasn't going to lie on the first day of ethics class. Emma might not be the most moral person in the room, but even she wasn't that tacky.

Anakin nodded. "Does that impulse come from logic or from picking the wrong side once?"

"Logic and self-interest," Emma said bluntly. "I've never picked the wrong side, and I don't intend to start now."

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