fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, September 23, 2nd period]

Anakin scrawled Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.--TS Eliot on the board and then turned around to face his students. "Pride--or hubris, if you speak Latin--in the Catholic religious tradition of this planet, is considered the original and most serious of the deadly sins. In order to deal ethically with other people, we need to acknowledge this very human flaw in ourselves and others. We want to believe that we are different, better than everyone around us." His gaze sharpened. "We're not. Everything is connected. You, me, the rocks outside, the deer in the preserve, the beings who live across the causeway, the trillions who make up the multiverse around us." He smiled a little ruefully. "The dozens of different versions of yourself others might have met before arriving on this island..."

He leaned back against his desk. "I grew up as a slave on a desolate planet beyond the normal reaches of the law in my society. When I was rescued by Jedi and told that with training, I could be like them, my pride in myself and my abilities quickly spiraled into arrogance and disdain for those who were teaching me. It took some very difficult lessons for me to realize that pride was probably my greatest fault."

Though there were arguments for most of the other Deadly Sins, too.

"So, learning to swallow our pride and admit we're not quite as special or brilliant as we thought we were is never a fun process," he continued. "How high do the stakes have to be before we'll admit we've made a mistake or have been fooled?"

Hopefully everyone else doesn't have to be limbless, on fire, evil and alone first...

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Hello there, random insight into Anakin's backstory.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Midlands, one Richard Cypher had just been overcome with the impulse to start bashing his head against the nearest tree without really knowing why.

It was completely unconnected with Cara's current expression. Really.

Anakin lost Medusa for a while at the part about how none of them were any better than the people around them. She was surrounded by humans, so obviously that did not apply.

Um. Not that Kennedy was slouching a little in her chair during the lecture or anything. Or looking just a little like it had touched a nerve.

Because neither of those things were on her current to-do list. At all.

James sighed. He was no stranger to lectures--sometimes a mere tongue-lashing, othertimes a beating--about pride in his abilities. This would be a great lecture.

Pride, hm? Jono's eyebrows raised a little as he listened to the lecture, particularly Professor Skywalker's recounting of his own past.

The things you never knew about people...

He had been a what? And rescued by whom? Desolate planet?

Once Zatanna processed all that she was going to think about the lecture a bit more.

The lessons on the dangers of pride had certainly not been in short supply when it came to William's pre-Fandom education, so while this wasn't exactly new, Professor Skywalker did seem to have a knack for making the lesson more... personal.

Hey I don't think I'm any better than anyone else. Leda thought.

She was quite proud of this.

Azula had heard iterations about this lecture before and that was all Azula going to think on the matter.

Squall clutched at his necklace with a frown on his face.

(What's wrong with having pride in yourself?)

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