fandomhigh | Ethics [Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 1st period]

"Good morning," Anakin said, sweeping into the classroom where the students had been assigned seats. "I'm Anakin Skywalker and this is Ethics. If you're in the wrong place, now's the time to get up and flee."

If you were in the right place, it wasn't bad advice either, depending on Anakin's mood. He paced in front of their desks as he spoke, Jedi robe swirling behind him. "Most classes this week focus on introductions, but there are a few familiar faces in the classroom already and I'll figure out the rest of you as we go along. Fandom, as you might have realized already, is a multi-dimensional nexus where beings from many different places and times come together." He made sure to look each student in the eyes as he spoke. "As such, what you may feel to be moral and immoral might be completely different than the person sitting next to you. I encourage discussion, even heated discussion, but it must be phrased in a constructive way. Responses like 'yes, but that's dumb,' 'yes, but you're dumb', or punching someone are not constructive."

He'd done all of those before, but this wasn't about the ethics of the Ethics teacher.

"I have no problem at all sending you to detention if you irritate me," he concluded. "Now, the unpleasant administrative things out of the way, let's start with our first ethical scenario: If you had to choose between killing one person in order to save five others, or doing nothing even though you know that doing nothing means that those five people would die before your eyes, what would you do? And what do you think would be the right thing to do?"

His eyes slid to Katniss ~~assuming she was there~~. "We touch on unpleasant subjects in this class, some of which might not be all that hypothetical to your life's experience," he added. "If you prefer not to discuss a particular scenario, just let me know by shaking your head and I'll skip you until the next week."

Anakin clasped his hands together. "Now, let's begin."

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Kenzi was listening, and she liked Annie's answer, but she also liked Luke's answer, and .... "Dude, is there a right thing to do there? I kinda think there's just surviving and not-surviving. It all sucks." She shrugged a little, looking glum. "I'd probably kill the one person, and then go throw up. Except if it were someone I cared about I'd probably wuss out and then five people would die. Whatcha gonna do."

"If I asked an easy question, there wouldn't be much point to this class, would there?" Anakin replied. "What if they were all people you knew?"

"Then fuck it, I abstain." Kenzi turned red. "Um. Sorry. But yeah. No. Not making that call. Somebody else can do it. Can't make me." Wait. "Oh crap. That means everbody dies." Damn!

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"Language, please," Anakin said sternly. "This is a classroom. And yes, if you refuse to kill the one, five people die."

Two years since she'd been in a classroom, and some of it had to show. She pressed her lips together to keep words behind it, and physically flailed. Fuck fuck fuck shit who signed me up for this class? Maybe I should cut next week? I don't knoooow! Arms waving. Flopping sideways. When the energy had exhausted itself, she slumped and said, "I dunno. I mean. Really. I do not know. Kill somebody. I guess." Or not.

Anakin watched her, wondering if she was having some kind of an attack. Maybe she should be sent to the clinic?

"Okay," he said. "This class is for you to decide what you could live with as a choice. I'm not going to judge you for it."

Unless you sang your response, Nathan.

Nah. Just the usual attack of hyperness of someone who hated being cooped up.

"Okay. Okay. I'll... work on it." Kenzi grimaced. Finally after a good long while thinking, and another lull in the conversation, she said, "Kill someone. And try to deal."

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