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Ethics [Thursday, December 17, 1st period]

"Welcome to your Ethics final," Anakin said, pacing around the classroom. "I will provide you with a series of scenarios. You tell me which option you would pick, and why. Since this is Ethics, there are no black and white correct answers to anything. What matters to me is that you have some sort of reason for your choice. If your logic is faulty or snide or clearly half-assed, that's when I will become...unhappy."

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Festively.

You arrive home after an extended period away to discover your mother has been kidnapped. She's presumed dead. What do you do and why?

a) Mourn and move on.
b) Brood about it constantly. Perhaps write poetry.
c) Ignore the idea that she might be dead and go after her yourself. Upon finding her remains, torch the village she was in.
d) None of the above.

You find out that your wife/lover/you is pregnant, yay! But you also learn that she will die in childbirth. Less yay. What now?

a) Make the most of the time you have left.
b) Look frantically for a cure. If this means doing unsavory things for slightly creepy people, so be it.
c) Like I'd ever get married. Here's how I see it going...
d) None of the above

Curse those rebels and their stubbornness. You've captured one of their leaders but she won't tell you where their secret base is. Conveniently enough, you're in a mobile superweapon that can destroy planets. The options are fairly open...

a) Call it a day. We'll capture another rebel some time. Maybe they'll tell us.
b) Drag her out onto the command deck and threaten to blow up her planet.
c) Drag her out onto the command deck and actually blow up her planet.
d) None of the above.

Sigh, children. Your stubborn son is refusing to take a Very Important Career Option you are offering him. Do you:

a) Let him follow his own path. He is, after all, his own person.
b) Whack off his arm and let him fall down a giant hole.
c) Offer the option to his sister instead.
d) None of the above.

He's there before and after class. He might even offer you a cookie.

...don't count on it.

Only before class, though. No asking them for answers during the exam.

You all have been a blast!

Leonard McCoy

Raven

Raven was there~~, but going to bed and answering the questions in the morning~~. She was a little sad this was the last class and hoping she would do well on the final.

Hayley Fitzpatrick

Hayley thought about this for a second, but found this one easy.

"D. She never really did much for me, any way. I've been better off without her since I left Gotham. So really, this ain't a tough question, ya know?"

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Hayley again found this one easy.

"B. I mean, unsavory means sweet, right? Which means they'd be really nice things for people who probably don't have nice things happen to them, because people think they're creepy. They probably need a little sweetness, and maybe they'd even stop being creepy! It'd be a win for everyone. I wouldn't die, and people would get nice things done and they'd no longer be creepy!"

It wasn't so much that her logic was faulty, just her thinking in general.

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Hayley thought for a second and then answered again with ease and speed.

"D. I mean, there's other ways of getting cooperation than threats, right? Maybe you can bribe her or tickle her into giving up the info. It might be fun! Plus blowing up planets seems kinda wrong and who'd want to do that?"

She grinned, like the cat that caught the canary.

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Katina Choovanski

Hayley sure found these questions odd.

"C, d'uh. I mean, you can't make your kids do things. That makes you a bad parent. But you can ask and stuff, and if they both say know, well... there's always adoption?" She giggled.

...I wasn't originally doing them as written answers. Really.

*facepalm*

Karla

Karla was confused. "What kind of career option would that be?" she asked. "Serving in another Queen's Court? It's not like I could force him to belong to a caste that he doesn't belong in. Who'd want a male who didn't want to be there? I mean, he'd only be more snarly and difficult to deal with. And if he's a Warlord Prince, then forcing him to do something wouldn't just be stupid, it'd also be dangerous."

Karla just shrugged. "I'd probably have my Consort or Steward or another male talk to him. Once we figure out why he doesn't like the option I'm giving him, we can work out a way to make it be more compatible with him."

Jonas

"A," Jonas said after some thought. "It would be an incredibly sad event but if I tried going after her, I would just lose my own life in the process and I know she wouldn't want that. So, A."

"A," Jonas said again, shifting uncomfortably at the morbidity of these questions. "I wouldn't want to waste precious time looking for a cure when I could be spending it with someone I love especially if said cure might not be guaranteed."

Jonas didn't find any of the options really suitable. He shied away from the threats of violence automatically and eventually selected one.

"D," he said after some time spent thinking. "There should be another way to coerce the prisoner into talking. Violence would probably work but I can't see myself wanting to see it, knowing it could be used on me. So, D. Find another way of coercion."

"A," Jonas said immediately, looking a little confused at how this was even an option. "No one should be made to do anything they don't want, family legacy or not."

This was, oddly enough, something Jonas felt strongly about and something he'd experienced firsthand.

"If you make him follow your own path, you're potentially closing up avenues that he could be successful or happy in. He might do well in the path you're offering but that wouldn't make a difference if it wasn't his decision and he wasn't happy and he always felt held down and in your shadow."

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Ethics [Thursday, December 17, 1st period]

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Talk to Anakin [12/17]

Talk to the TAs [12/17]

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