Ethics [Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 1st period]

[sith_happened]

Today's class was taking place in the Danger Shop where there wasn't a desk to be found: only a cloudless day, a beating sun and apparent kilometers of oceans surrounding five small dingies that were neatly labeled with four or five students' names, or in one case, four students and one lemur.

Anakin's voice came over the speaker system: "Welcome to your first practical Ethics class. You've all been shipwrecked. In a moment, the dingy you're in will be the only thing you will see. There is no land for hundreds of kilometers, no fresh water, and you've run out of food. The only resources you have are the other people--or in one case, the people and lemur--you have in the boat. Will you turn to cannibalism? If so, who will be the first to go?"

Hope you weren't hungry for breakfast, class.

"Again, if you'd prefer not to participate in this class, shake your head strongly and you will be taken out of the simulation."

With that the students were apparently left to their own devices.

Comments

Re: Dingy 2

[wasthecuteone]

"I was on a plane that crashed. Oh, I don't know if you know planes," Petra realized, since she might actually be Lucrezia freaking Borgia. "They're like ships...that, uh, travel through the air. All we had was the stuff in our luggage, so we had to get really creative. And we were fake-rescued by people who really wanted to kill us, so then we rescued ourselves and escaped."

After examining Lucrezia's dress for a few moments, she decided, "Okay, I don't want to rip up your gorgeous dress yet because this is class, not the real deal, so let's not and say I totally just did that to make a tarp. Although if we were really stuck in a dingy the dress would already be toast."

Re: Dingy 2

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

Planes (plains?) were air-ships: that was another thing she ought to look up, as she was headed to a library tomorrow. She filed that with the rest of the stray comments and oddities.

"You were nearly assassinated?" she asked, giving her friend an uneasy look. "All of you? Were you a political faction of some variety?"

She gathered the dress up, grateful that it did not need to be sacrificed to the project, but unwilling to place it on again just yet. She was hugging it to herself, instead, and standing in her under-dress.

Re: Dingy 2

[wasthecuteone]

"No, we were in a beauty pageant," Petra explained with a shrug. "So more like...public figures? The bad guys were trying to start a war by blaming the people they wanted to go to war against for killing us."

"I would definitely leave the dress off for now," she added when she noticed. "It'll be less hot."

Re: Dingy 2

[holy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"I suppose that's as useful a strategy for war-mongering as any," she mused. "Could they not have blamed the plane accident on those they hated, instead? It might have saved them time."

Re: Dingy 2

[wasthecuteone]

"You're asking me to understand the workings of Ladybird Hope's mind," Petra said. "That is not a thing that will ever be happening. And the guy they wanted to pin it on was crazier than she was." And part of the reason Petra was glad they hadn't gotten the boat with the lemur. Even live ones sort of freaked her out.