Ethics [Thursday, April 21, 2011, 1st period]

[sith_happened]

"Good morning, class," Anakin said, sweeping into the classroom with his cape billowing out behind him. "Today's your final exam. As with most things in this course, there are not necessarily right or wrong answers. I only want you to explain your choices. If you leave me with half-assed or badly argued replies, that's when I grow unhappy."

He passed out the exams. "You've been an adequate class, more or less." Which was high praise, for Anakin. "Begin."

Comments

Re: Question #3

[angelo_wings]

Dammit. It would have been too easy if all the questions were as simple as the last one. This one took her a while.

The first thing she wrote -- above the question, before circling an answer, was:

I want to know what she's rebelling against and why. Is she fighting a repressive government? Are people being killed, and she wants to bring light to it? I mean, how serious is this resistance movement? It's never okay to kill civilians, though, so I'm still against them, but why did they feel they had to go that far?

Maybe she was sympathizing too much with the rebel, since she'd been a resistance fighter herself.

She very, very hesitantly circled a but wasn't anywhere near to being done.

Are we sure the bombs are really there? Is there no way to make them shut off without information from her? Do we not have time to evacuate? If there really, really, really isn't any choice and really, really, really isn't any time left, then I pick a, but can we please just maybe do weird psychological stuff to her instead of, I don't know, cutting her liver out? I don't like what it would make us into if we had to torture her but I don't think I could deal with the bombs going off if I didn't.