Ethics [Tuesday, September 13, 2011]

[sith_happened]

"Hello, class," Anakin said. "Welcome back to this, the second day after my granddaughter's wedding... I trust that by being in class, you have recovered from the weekend and are no longer praying for death or amnesia, and will be able to participate fully in this discussion."

He went to the board and scrawled: "Utilitarianism: it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong," then turned to face his students. "Do you think this is true? If what gives the majority pleasure is watching Christians getting eaten by lions, or a four-day-marathon of Fear Factor, does that make it right? What will protect the rights of the individual--who in this example might be a Christian who enjoys PBS--or do those really matter?"

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Re: Chat before class!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Yeah? I got murdered by my ex-boyfriend," Luke shared. "Hopefully that's the last time that happens as well."

Re: Chat before class!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Ex-boyfriend. So at least Annie could say there probably wouldn't be any 'But that kiss was nice,' like Sam had been talking about.

"Ouch. If it makes you feel any better, I died of caffeine."

Re: Chat before class!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey. Luke liked girls just as much as he liked guys and he got murdered for saying so, thank you very much.

Luke lifted his eyebrows. "Were your drinking Four Loko or something?"

Re: Chat before class!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Just coffee. It was weird, like I reacted like someone who had no idea what coffee actually does." Like the writers couldn't be bothered to do research.

Re: Chat before class!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"That's...weird." Luke tapped his fingers against his coffee cup before giving Annie an apologetic look. "I should probably let you know my ex gets pissy about stupid things and even though we're broken up he might give you stink eye if you ever see him 'cause I told him your name when he asked who I made out with over the weekend. Just ignore him."

Luke had no evidence to back this up other than it was how he would react to Marshall if he ever saw him.

Re: Chat before class!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Oh, okay." She hadn't quite expected that, but. "He's not a senior, is he?"

Priorities, Annie has them.

Re: Chat before class!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"No, we're both juniors," Luke said. "No need to worry about him sabotaging you."

All Luke knew about school elections was from that movie with Reese Witherspoon so he naturally thought people were having cutthroat battles of the nerdy nature out in the hallways over this sort of stuff.