Ethics [Thursday, September 2, 2nd 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. "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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Re: Answer the discussion question [9/2]

[dontvotemeout]

It had been a while since Jason had seen Wesley, and he felt kind of bad about that, so he was glad they had a class together.

"Have you ever been in a life-or-death situation?" he asked. "'Cause it's hard to know how you'd really handle that kind of confrontation until you've been in a moment like that."

Re: Answer the discussion question [9/2]

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Well, there'd been this one time that he and Giles were held hostage and threatened with torture and Wes had just started telling the demon everything he knew. Since he hadn't known much, it didn't end up being all that harmful, but still. Not the bravest thing in the world.

"Yes," he said flatly.

Then, thinking he might as well do some damage control on how much he embarrassed himself, Wes added, "I - I simply believe that there's a difference between one's ethical viewpoint and what one actually does. The moral thing to do is usually apparent, but it's rather difficult to willingly allow a demon to remove your kneecaps when you can avoid it."

Re: Answer the discussion question [9/2]

[dontvotemeout]

"Hey, there's nothing wrong with wanting to keep your kneecaps attached to you," Jason said, trying to be reassuring. "If you're not the kind of person who'd attack back if someone tried to mess with you, there's no shame in trying to get away. That's protecting yourself too."