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.

Comments

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

[gotyourmateria.livejournal.com]

Yuffie listened to the others and shrugged. "Same as someone else's. Some friends ran off to save the world and I was sent with another friend to rescue people from the city at ground zero. Which, I really didn't get because if Meteor had hit, everyone would have died anyway. I think they just wanted me out of the way and sent a babysitter."

Sometimes, Yuffie did acknowledge what a pain in the ass she could be.

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

[sith_happened]

"Do you have a habit of not following instructions?" Anakin asked.

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

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena was not supposed to spoil bits of the timeline. This didn't really count. Did it?

"Think about it the other way around, though," Elena mused. "Meteor didn't hit, but the city was entirely destroyed. You and Vincent saved a lot of people who might not have gotten out, otherwise."