Ethics [Thursday, September 9, 2nd period]

[sith_happened]

"As you might remember from the syllabus I handed out last week," Anakin said as he leaned against his desk, "today's topic is lying. In Fandom, where multiple timelines meet and mingle, lying can be a terribly complex subject."

He gazed around the room. "We have students here from different centuries who by stepping foot onto the island learn immediately about electricity, electronics and reality television. Depending on societies they arrive from, they could learn about guns--or even the very concept of war--and change their worlds irrevocably."

Anakin began pacing. "Sometimes the situation is even more specific. Several years ago, a student arrived here who I knew--but I knew him as a Jedi Master I'd met when I was a small child. I also knew that his death, at least in my timeline, had been a violent one. A teacher I had used to say that the future is constantly in motion, but my experience with multiple timelines seems to show that certain large, galaxy changing events tend to stay constant. Did I have an obligation to tell this student about his future? Or do I respect his timeline and his ability to make his own decisions?"

He sat back down. "The questions today are these: if you have knowledge of the future, what parts would you lie about--even through omission--from someone further behind in the timeline? And if you met someone from your future, would you want to know anything about what you might face someday? Would you respect them for not telling you everything? Or even anything?"

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Re: Answer the second discussion question [9/9]

[nohaircutsplz]

"Unless it mattered on a much larger scale than just me," by which she meant 'to Blackagar,' 'to the rest of their family' and 'to the entire Inhuman population,' full stop, nothing in between and nothing outside of those three factors mattered, "I wouldn't want to know," Medusalith decided. "If something terrible happens to me, then I'll just live in fear and worry trying to change it, and then it might happen anyway, and if something wonderful happens to me, I'd be absolutely neurotic trying to make sure it happened, and might wind up causing it not to. I think it's better to just let these things take their course. Although," she had to admit, "there are probably things I'd want to make an exception about." Which was to say that if she found out someone knew whether the Genetics Council was going to match her with Blackagar or not, she would slam them up against the wall with her hair and shake them down for answers.

Re: Answer the second discussion question [9/9]

[sith_happened]

"Can you think of those exceptions now?" Anakin asked.

Re: Answer the second discussion question [9/9]

[nohaircutsplz]

"Some of them. I'm sure there are others I haven't thought of yet that would just...slap me in the face," she said, clearly displeased with having to use such an inelegant turn of phrase.