fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, September 2, 2nd 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. "I'm Master Anakin Skywalker," he said in a voice that was intended to carry. "You may address me either as Master Skywalker or Professor Skywalker. This is Ethics, and we're going to skip the introductions--I'll figure out who you are, if I don't recognize you already--and move straight to our first discussion."

His cloak flared out behind him as he handed out the syllabus. "Today's topic," he said, pointing to the top of the page, "is self sacrifice: knowing the difference between saving people and being a pretentious twit."

Anakin wasn't a great believer in softening his language.

"Any time I ask a a group of people what they would do to save someone they love, they 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 five years now and realize that half of you have probably already been put into this situation. I'm never in a mood to hear adolescent ramblings about how wonderful you were or might hypothetically be."

He leaned back against his desk. "What I want to know is what would make you walk away. When do you decide that the risk isn't worth the cost?"

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Well, obviously, if her death would negatively impact her people. Like if it would make Crystalia first in line for the throne (and thank Agar there were Blackagar and Maximus between them and that) or something. It would also be inexcusable to allow her death to end her family's genetic cache (in which case she supposed Crystalia would already be dead, which would take the 'Crystalia as queen' concern out of the equation), but that fell, also, under the category of 'negatively impacting her people.' But she was supposed to be German, so she supposed she couldn't say that.

This was all very trying sometimes.

She supposed she could be more general about it.

"If my sacrifice would ultimately negatively impact my people and society as a whole, I would obviously refrain from doing so."

"And how would you judge that?" Anakin asked, interested.

See above re: Crystalia (or Maximus, but he hadn't shown himself completely bonkers yet). "Well," she said, considering how to word this, "if it resulted in someone completely incapable being...in charge. Or if it meant the loss of my family's genetics, of course." Obviously.

"Your family's genetics?" Anakin repeated.

"Yes, of course," Medusa said. "Fortunately, I do have a sister."

"How lucky," Anakin said, feeling completely out of his depth. "Are you involved in some sort of succession of power?"

"Very," Medusalith agreed. Then she said carefully, "I am from Germany. Which is a republic."

Anakin looked even more confused. "It is. Are you from a very different dimension's version of Germany?"

"No?" she said, quite innocently.

"I must need to do a lot more research about Germany," Anakin finally decided.

"It is in Europe," she supplied helpfully.

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