Ethics [December 16, 2nd period]

[sith_happened]

"Unlike some of the other teachers here, I still expect you to complete a final examination this week," Anakin said as he shut the door and began passing out paperwork. "I will provide you with a series of scenarios. You write down which option you would pick, and why. Since this is Ethics, there are no black and white absolutely correct answers to anything. What matters to me is that you have some sort of reason for your choice. If your logic is faulty or snide or clearly half-assed, that's when I will become...unhappy."

And when he was unhappy, final grades reflected it. He'd come a long way--he used to kill people when he was unhappy...

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Scenario #4

[sith_happened]

As a "special honor", the authorities who have captured you and your children will let you choose one of them not to die immediately. You will never see the other one again, as the two of you remaining will be sent to languish in the spice mines of Kessel, which are not known for their low mortality rates. Do you choose your older son or your younger daughter? And how do you deal with the guilt?

a) You choose to let your son live. He's older and might survive the intense labor in the spice mines.
b) You choose to let your daughter live. She's younger--perhaps one of the other prisoners will take pity on her and assist her.
c) None of the above.

Re: Scenario #4

[furnaceface]

A question about hypothetical children that Jonothon doubted he was ever going to have anyhow? He supposed that was fair enough. Easy to answer, considering it wasn't real lives that he was playing with... and yet...

C. Neither. If the two survivors get sent together, they might be able to get one another through. Let both children live. Kill me, instead.

Re: Scenario #4

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully stared at this one with an impassive face, even as she wanted to stab the test with her pen.

C) Mind games from torturers are not a cause for misplaced guilt.

As a responsible parent, all I can ask is to be killed instead, and trust my children to look out for each other.

Re: Scenario #4

[talks-backwards.livejournal.com]

C. None of the above. I have no idea of what to do. Panic and let them decide perhaps? Or try to make them chose me to die.

While panicking all the way, of course.

Re: Scenario #4

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

C. I'd force probably be too busy raging at them and making them kill me with my repeated attempts to use any and all means to kill my captors.

Re: Scenario #4

[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

c) I stall until their mother rescues us.

Re: Scenario #4

[nohaircutsplz]

Medusalith would like to know the hell kind of question was this.

C. I stall until the rest of my family arrives to rescue us. If this effort fails, I choose myself to die. Then my family will rescue the children. Obviously.

Re: Scenario #4

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

This one, again, Kennedy didn't put too much thought in before answering, and this time it was out of conviction that might never get shaken out of her.

C. Screw that, they can take me instead.

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[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

C. Kill the authorities. Or die trying.

Re: Scenario #4

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara had been reading through the test before answering anything, looking for trick questions, since experience told her that whenever someone said there were no right answers they were usually lying through their teeth. However, when she reached this question, she turned over the sheet, picked up her pen, and feeling an odd sense of utter calm, wrote in carefully formed script:

I refuse to engage in these kind of mind-games for your sick enjoyment.

Then, still very, very calmly, and very, very precisely, Cara tore her exam paper in half. Then again, and again, until she was left with a pile of stamp-sized scraps of paper.