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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"Does it count if one doesn't really need to fall that much?" Because honestly speaking, Zatanna wasn't much of a prideful person, unless she was bragging about her father. Sure, she had magic, and sure she had potential, but she didn't see the point on making castles in the skies.

"...is it prideful to say I am not prideful?"

"You were pretty hurt by Raven's accusations," Anakin replied. "Was that not stung pride?"

"I am pretty hurt by those accusations", commented Zatanna. "But that doesn't have to do with pride. Or at least not my pride. What got hurt wasn't my pride, at any rate." Why would she even feel something like that for knowing another version of herself had hurt Raven?

"Only if it's not true, I would think," Medusalith, who was probably not the best judge of this sort of thing if she was entirely self-aware, but alas, she was not, said.

"Yeah, but who are us to define what we are and we aren't so easily? I think it's the rest of the people, or at least those that know us the most the ones that should put the adjectives."

"But that assumes others see us clearly," Medusalith said. "They have their own biases, in some cases."

"Well, some should see us clearly, not everyone? I mean, it's not as if you will allow anyone tell you what you are and what you aren't, but you can always trust some people?" Could she, now? Said that way she wasn't so sure. "Where is the line between stating a fact and bragging?"

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