fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, March 24, 2011, 1st period]

His conversations with Raven and Katniss on Tuesday and his worry over Leia factored heavily into the topic Anakin chose for today. "In the New Testament, one of the religious texts of this planet, love is described as patient and kind, beyond such things as holding grudges," Anakin began.

"In my version of the Jedi Order, we were taught that in order to maintain the proper distance necessary to negotiate impartially across our galaxy, we were to strive for serenity, not passion. To be Jedi, we should not know anger, or hatred, or love. When we were very small children, we were raised in the Temple so that family loyalty or planetary allegiance would not get in the way of following the will of the Force."

He crossed his arms over his chest, the wedding ring on his left hand gleaming under the light, and glanced around the room. "Would you have been able to hold to their rules? Can you stop someone from acting out their feelings? What do you think the Masters of my Order were trying to prevent?"

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Full of love.

Blackagar Boltagon

Jack McCallister

Dolf Wega

Peter Bishop

Lion-o

Rinoa Heartilly

Lindsay Weir

Anduin Wrynn

Quinn Fabray

Wonder what the Jedi had been thinking...

"Would you have been able to hold to the Jedi rules? Can you stop someone from acting out their feelings? What do you think the Masters of the Order were trying to prevent?"

Rinoa had dark circles under her eyes, and could hardly focus on the question itself. She wanted to sleep, but every time she slept, she only felt worse.

"It's stupid," she said, far less tactfully than she might have in a better mood. "They want -- you to know about love but then they tell you you can't have any and they raise you without it. How's that supposed to work? They're trying to keep you from being stupid about your feelings but it just means you're not going to know how to deal with feelings when they happen."

"We were masters at repressing," Anakin agreed with a slightly grim smile. "Feel it, acknowledge it, and then move on. This was not as easy as they made it sound."

"Repressing isn't healthy," Rinoa said, entirely unnecessarily. "It'll all come out sooner or later. Nobody can repress forever, can they?"

Anakin shrugged. "I knew Jedi who managed to do so for decades, even centuries."

Or possibly he had just blocked the possibility of Yoda having thoughts of love out of his mind forever. Which was also extremely healthy.

"Maybe they're better at it," she considered. "I don't ... think I'd be a very good Jedi."

In other news, water had been known to be wet.

"I think I agree with you there," Anakin said, hiding a smile. "Are you all right?" he asked in a quieter voice.

Love is a dangerous thing, Blackagar wrote after a moment of ~~brooding~~ thought on the matter.

Obedience and doing what is best for the whole to ensure survival is what we should strive for. I have been taught that the will of the Genetic Council supercede's my own despite my standing amongst my people. I would like to believe that I would follow their decision for my bride in the future, but unless it is Medusalith, I do not believe I would obey.

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Anakin's lips quirked up. "I was a similar way, only instead of following the Order's rules against marriage, I ignored them entirely."

And that had ended very, very well. Really.

Blackagar just ended up accidentally killing his parents and half the Genetics Council, so...

Ahem.

She is the only one I do not need to write to speak to.

"That does seem significant," Anakin decided. "Surely the Council would take that into consideration?"

Though Councils in his experience tended to be moronic.

They were just made of idiocy.

I am unsure what they will decide. Love does not always factor into decisions for future rulers.

Because they might end up with an insane kid who was just like his brother! Waaaait a minute...

"So they are looking for political compatibility and strong genes rather than a love match," Anakin guessed.

More genetic compatibility

Because that was always for the best in Marvel. Really.

If you have questions before or after class.

If you have questions during class and don't want to ask Anakin.

And wanted to ask the silent man instead. Because he was so good at answering questions!

Well, if you let him have a moment to write, he was.

I remembered to post tonight!

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