Ethics [Thursday, September 3, 1st period]

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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]

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Jonas looked around carefully, gauging if he wanted to actually admit this in front of a classroom full of people he didn't know.

"I don't know, sir," he said, answering honestly but still dodging the actual question in the best possible way he knew how. His classmates had seen their share of horrors but his was a horror that he'd accepted so readily for the majority of his life. It was difficult. "I've never been Released."

He had proof in that he was still alive.

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

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Yeah, that was kind of the definition of Released Anakin had reached. Nice euphemism.

A tiny pursing of Anakin's lips was the only sign of his disapproval. "That was a difficult position to be placed in, then."

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

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Jonas nodded briefly, keeping his eyes on his desk while he did so. "It was. Leaving was the only option."

His mother would have shaken her head at his language, telling him that wasn't true but she didn't know, hadn't seen, couldn't feel. It was the only option if he'd wanted to be able to live with himself.

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

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"Will you be going back?" he asked.

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

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"I can't." He shook his head. He'd escaped, let all the memories of sadness, pain, hate and other things overwhelm the Community. He'd left the Giver to deal with that alone. He didn't want to look his father in the eye. "No. It wouldn't be possible nor would it be wise."

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

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Sympathy flashed in Anakin's eyes. "Fandom isn't a bad place to start over," he said. "I haven't been home in years either."

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

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He managed a brief smile that didn't quite go to his eyes but, these days, nothing much did. "Thank you, sir. From what I've experienced so far, I believe you might be right."