Ethics [Thursday, November 12, 1st period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin stalked into the room precisely on time and shut the door firmly behind him. "Today we talk about wrath," he said. "There's something very human about giving in to our temper," he said. "It's freeing, uncomplicated."

He paused. "At least at that moment. The repercussions are always waiting."

He waved a hand and the holoprojector flipped to life. Frozen in time was a young Jedi with two lightsabers at the neck of an older, clearly defeated enemy. The students might remember the scenario from a few weeks ago.

"This was me," he said, pointing at the young man. "And that older man was evil and threatened my family. It didn't make the choice I made--to kill him while he knelt there--any less wrong."

He looked around the classroom making eye contact with every student before continuing. "Wrath is very, very tempting. It urges you to listen to that dark little voice inside of you--to cut loose, live without consequences."

He pointed at the holo again. "There are always consequences. This moment has stayed with me, made me the person I am. It wasn't a positive influence."

Anakin stopped pacing. "What would it take for you to get to that hazy edge? And more importantly, how do you stop yourself from giving in?"

Comments

Re: Answer the discussion question!

[icecoldfrost]

"Why do you have to be angry to kill?" Emma asked. "If I'm pissed, the odds are that you'll wish I'd killed you by the time I'm done."

Anyone who'd been in Briarwood had barely the barest hint of what Emma would do if you were stupid enough to rouse her wrath.

Re: Answer the discussion question!

[glacial_queen]

"I don't," Karla said, shrugging. "I'm simply pointing what the question presented to the class was. It's easy to talk about killing as a duty or in sdelf-defense, but the questions really isn't about whether or why someone would kill. It's asking what would push that person to the point where they were so angry, they would kill. Or worse."