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]

[furnaceface]

Jono nodded faintly, contemplating the area somewhere in the general direction of 'down' while he worked out a proper reply to that one.

//I imagine it's a fairly good reason for at least a few young people looking so old, as well.//

You didn't have to have decades worth of choices behind you to feel weighed down by them, after all.

Re: Answer the discussion question [9/2]

[sith_happened]

Anakin, whose eyes looked much older than the 27 years he copped to, nodded. "Indeed."