fandomhigh | Ethics Class [Thursday, January 6, 1st period]

Anakin stalked through the classroom doorway precisely on time, his cloak swooping ~~overdramatically~~ in his wake. "I am Master Anakin Skywalker," he said as his eyes made contact with every student in the room, "and this is Ethics. Most teachers are spending this week making introductions. I do things slightly differently."

He began passing out a short story. "There's a very famous story on this world of the lady or the tiger. For those of you not from here, the short version is that there was a fictional king with his own sense of justice: instead of a court system, he had an arena with two doors. Behind one door was a beautiful woman, handpicked by the king. Behind the other was a tiger. If you chose the tiger, you were eaten and declared guilty. If you chose the lady, you were considered innocent and immediately married to the lady. The king didn't care about your previous marital status or sexual orientation, apparently."

He leaned back against his desk, though the posture of his back showed that he wasn't very comfortable with the idea of relaxing. "One day the king discovered that his daughter had been having an affair with someone far below her station, so the man was arrested and tossed into the arena. Now the princess knew which door had what behind it, and her lover looked up to her for advice. She had two choices: watch her love die, or watch him marry another woman. The story ends with the princess telling him which door to open, but leaves us hanging as to what waited behind it."

Anakin smiled. "Your task today is two-fold. First, pair up with a classmate--pick someone you haven't met yet--and decide what the princess did. Then tell me what you would have done in the princess's place."

He glanced around the room. "And I am looking for a teacher's aid or two if any of you are interested."

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"It'd certainly make for an interesting afternoon," Anakin agreed.

He'd been in Fandom too long to doubt that someone could kill the tiger without weapons.

I'm certain more planning than an afternoon would have gone into it.

...Yeeeaaah. Just go with it, Anakin.

Anakin nodded. "Though there's something to be said for spur-of-the moment plans, too."

This from the man who'd ended up tied to a post and almost fed to giant Jedi-eating monsters, if it hadn't been for his girlfriend and her hairpin.

Meanwhile, Blackagar was more the 'ponder everything until the last possible minute and then move a city to the fucking moon' type.

That does not sound safe.

"Well, even a well-thought out plan with a tiger isn't going to be safe," Anakin countered.

Curse you and your logic!

You have given the situation. I merely extrapolated my motivations and actions from there. Had I truly wished to wed an undesirable, I would have waited to take the throne and rallied my cousins to rise up and destroy the Genetic Council. Which would have been unwise as they have kept our people safe for thousands of years.

Sigh, Blackagar. Sigh.

Anakin smiled. "Fair enough. Most systems of government aren't based on tigers."

No, here they seem to favour yelling incoherently and doing very little.

He didn't watch much TV, but when he did it was C-SPAN.

"That's not just limited to this government," Anakin said wryly. "The one where I come from enjoys that very much as well."

Is it also a democracy? Blackagar wrote back, giving him an interested look.

"Getting there," Anakin said, nodding. "It's going through a period of...flux."

Obi-Wan would be proud of that bit of obfuscation.

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