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Ethics Class #5, Friday morning, 8-10am

Tara looks tired but happy as the students come in. She wears a scarf around her neck that doesn't quite cover a greenish-purple bruise.

"Last week we looked at power and responsibility. The first hour is an extension of that. I want you to divide into two groups. If your name has an odd number of letters, you're in Group A." She waves to one side of the classroom to indicate that the group should congregate there. "If your name has an even number of letters," waving to the other side of the classroom, "you're in Group B. Go."

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After waiting a few minutes to make sure Tara wasn't going to boot him out of Group B, Bel answered the question. "I think I'd be angry at first. I don't like the thought of a portion of my memory missing. But if it was someone I really trusted -- I'd have to wonder if I asked them to do it for some reason. There are some things that someone may have done that they don't want to remember...."

Beka nodded at Bel. "Yeah. And there may be things that if they knew would really hurt them."

Bel shifted uncomfortably. "Yeah."

My question would still be 'what was erased?'

If it's something I did while under some 'evil' influence, something really out of character that I may have a difficult time forgiving myself for, but that everyone else has already forgiven me for, then it would be one thing.

If this outside person - let's call him Claude for the sake of arguement. If Claude had done something he didn't want me to know about so he erased my memory of it, I'd be pissed. Because now I'm still seeing him as all good and trustworthy and whatnot, but he's now done two untrustworthy things. And that's a problem.

So I guess it depends on who the memory centers around.

Does that make sense?

"No, I agree. It would depend on whether it was really for my benefit, or to prevent an argument or something," Rory says, finally speaking.

"So you'd reserve judgement until you knew what it was?" Tara asks the group (very pleased that they're discussing amongst themselves). "What if they refused to tell you what it was?"

"Then I would wonder why not. If they truly love me, they should be willing to tell me at least the nature of the memory," Rory says, shrugging.

"'course, it doesn't always end up so easy," Charlie replied. "They might keep it from you if they think telling you even a little bit would hurt you."

If they were someone who I could trust, and they said something like, "If I tell you the 'spell' will reverse itself" I may live with it.

If they were just going, "I ain't tellin'" then I'd get really suspicious. I mean, if it were really done for my benefit and there were no good reason to keep it from me, it'd be a little shady to NOT say. Right?

"A lot of it would depend on if I trusted the person or really trusted them," Bel said. "And, yeah, how they reacted if you confronted them on it would definitely affect your own reaction."

"But would you be really able to trust them? Most people find it hard enough trust someone who's been dishonest to them. I imagine that forcing someone to be dishonest to themselves would be an even more effective destroyer of trust."

"How do you know you didn't ask them to make you forget?" Belthazor said. "How do you know it wasn't forced, but requested?"

"You don't. But like Parker said (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/352567.html?thread=16857143#t16857143), if you did they should have left the memory, otherwise all you have to go on is the word of someone who has violated your very essence of self."

"I agree with Callisto. If I asked someone to remove part of my memory, then I would also want them to leave something behind so I would know that I requested it and that I wasn't violated." Phoebe shakes her head. "I've had my mind messed with and I've had things kept from me. If someone I loved were to mess with my mind...I'd need some sort of indication that they were honestly working in my best interest and that I had asked them to do so."

Kawalsky nodded. "Indication yeah. I agree with you. I think we'd have a rough time trying to get the person hiding the memory to tell something about it, but if they told me it was for my best interest, I guess.. well, I guess it'd depend on the person. I'd hafta trust 'em a lot."

Beka tossed Bel a note.

Not you.

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