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

[brambless.livejournal.com]

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."

Comments

Re: Group B

[demonbelthazor]

"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."

Re: Group B

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

"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."

Re: Group B

[demonbelthazor]

"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?"

Re: Group B

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

"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."

Re: Group B

[sensethevisions]

"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."

Re: Group B

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

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."