fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, September 16, 2nd period]

"'Do unto others as you would have done unto you,'" Anakin quoted as the students found their seats. "On this planet, that phrase is known as the Golden Rule. It sounds quite altruistic, which might be why they are more than a few more cynical versions of it around: 'do unto others before they can do unto you,' and the like. The rule also seems to be assuming that everyone wants the same things done to them. But what if you don't mind getting poked in the stomach? Does it follow that you could aimlessly poke people? What if you don't see anything wrong with stealing, or killing, or hating entire groups of people?"

He shrugged. "I suppose the Golden Rule could be simplified as 'be nice to people, so they'll be nice to you' but out here in the real world, we all know it doesn't exactly work like that, and the concept could also be reinterpreted as 'it doesn't bother me, so why does it bother you?' Is this a case of aiming for an ideal and hoping that it will cause a ripple effect of positive things, or something overly simplistic that taken to its logical extreme renders itself useless?"

He smiled. "I like to ask nice, easy questions."

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Take notes! Wonder how you are going to answer all of those questions.

Rosalind frowned slightly as she listened.

Too simple by far, she thought.

Jono's eyebrow furrowed a bit as he listened to the lecture. Anakin's logic made sense, if you didn't think on it too hard, but it all seemed a little... Skewed, perhaps.

Depending on the circumstances, Leda didn't see anything wrong with stealing. She was going to not think about the second part of that thank you very much.

And she was pretty sure that someone who was inclined to hate entire groups of people, really didn't see anything wrong with it.

Elphaba almost laughed. No one, not until Fandom, had truly treated her in a way they would want to be treated.

She dutifully jotted down notes, though.

Azula was barely listening at this point. She knew nothing about Professor Skywalker's Golden Rules. The only only golden rule she knew was related entirely to the Fire Nation.

More stuff to think about. Notes notes notes. Maybe Professor Skywalker should rename his course to Doubting Ethics, or something like that.

She would spend the rest of the lecture trying not to grin at herself.

Simple in theory, simple in practice. James grinned. This might be fun today.

Kon could have been taking notes, but he preferred to take a nap. And check out the lovely ladies.

Medusalith had never heard of this thing before, and so had no idea of whether Anakin was being facetious or playing devil's advocate or was dead serious. Surely the stated 'rule' didn't mean, 'go ahead and be terrible if you wouldn't mind people being terrible to you,' (although she guessed she wouldn't be too terribly surprised, either) but she felt like she was missing cultural context or something, and was left feeling terribly confused.

Squall started to take notes, but got lost in trying to unravel the meaning of the Golden Rule and ended up just staring at his paper lost in thought.

Cara didn't take any notes, since it was hard to write when you'd accidentally snapped your pen in two.

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