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

[sith_happened]

"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."

Comments

Re: Answer the discussion question! [8/30]

[hasadestiny]

"And Luthors are never tacky." Lex's pitch-perfect impersonation of Lionel would probably have worked better on someone who'd actually met him.

Re: Answer the discussion question! [8/30]

[sedlexduralex.livejournal.com]

It was funny how her experience with Morgensterns and Lightwoods and Waylands (oh my) made the imitation still amusing even if she didn't know who he was imitating. It was difficult to get the jump on arrogance with a bunch of Nephilim.

"Neither are Fairchilds," Jocelyn said airly though she couldn't help smiling. "I'm Jocelyn."

Re: Answer the discussion question! [8/30]

[hasadestiny]

"I actually am Lex," he said, holding up the tag from his desk as proof.

Re: Answer the discussion question! [8/30]

[sedlexduralex.livejournal.com]

"...we didn't already cover that part?" she checked. There might've been snickering now.

Re: Answer the discussion question! [8/30]

[hasadestiny]

"This place employs a pink talking pony." Lex was still not over that, no. "We shouldn't take anything for granted."

Re: Answer the discussion question! [8/30]

[sedlexduralex.livejournal.com]

"Give it a few more days, the pink talking pony's going to be the least of the weirdness," Jocelyn replied from the heights of having spent a whole summer at Fandom.