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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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Post your arrival and before class discussions here.

When Phoebe sees Tara, she looks relieved.

[ooc: If your name has an odd number of letters, you're in Group A. If not? Don't you be reading this until you've answered your own question, okay?]

"Okay folks, this is your scenario. Your loved one is suffering - a horrible event or memory that is tearing them apart. You have the ability to remove the memory of that event, excising it from their mind like a cancer. Assuming you must make this decision on your own, without any cue of what your loved one wants - what do you do?"

[ooc: If your name has an even number of letters, you're in Group B. If not? Don't you be reading this until you've answered your own question, okay?]

"Alright, here's your scenario. You discover that someone you love and trust has erased a portion of your memory. You do not remember giving consent to this, and you have no knowledge whatsoever of what it was they removed. What is your reaction? How do you feel?"

"Time's up, folks. Back into a big group, and we're discussing your respective scenarios. This one is a class discussion - I want you talking with each other, not with me."

[ooc: which means replying to the last comment in the main thread (although I expect there to be some breakoffs for individual discussion and argument) instead of replying to this one.]

If you need it, it's here.

Belthazor slinks into class, avoiding Tara's eyes.

As always, if this hits any of your RL buttons, as opposed to your character's buttons, I need to know immediately. Failing that, feel free to direct your snark and peanut-gallery-ness here.

Quietly Tara passes behind Belthazor, rumpling his hair affectionately without a single word before she continues on.

*counts on his fingers* S-H-E-P-P-A-R-D... 8, so even then.

I guess my first reaction is intense curiousity. If this is someone I love and trust in all other situations, then I'm going to assume I can trust them in this too. But I'd want to know what was erased and why. If this is someone I'm able to love and trust than this is also someone who wouldn't take something like this lightly. There must have been something serious on the line. My life, or possibly my sanity. Maybe someone else's.

I'd be a little anxious until someone could answer my questions about whether or not this is a part of my memory that I'm going to need in order to function or not - did I forget my 5th birthday party or how to drive a car? One has a larger impact on the way I live my life right now than the other does. And I'd probably get a little aggitated until someone could tell me why (and, knowing me, how) it was done.

Comes in and flops into a chair. For once he's not late.

Belthazor blinked and stared at Tara in surprise. Huh?

Beka arrived at class looking not at all well. Her eyes were haunted as she took a seat near Bel and Phoebe but saying nothing.

Yo, B. ... you okay over there?

"Huh?" Beka startled at the voice. Oh. Shep. "Hey, uh, yeah. Bad night, that's all. Thanks." Definitely changing the topic, she asks, "So, how've you been?"

Belthazor cheated, counting the letters in "Cole" so he could be in the same group as Phoebe and Beka.

Bel gave Beka a questioning look.

Phoebe looks at Beka with concern.

"Dream," Beka said quietly. "Very. Bad. Dream."

Beka gave Phoebe a feeble smile and reached for her hand. "Bad night, sister-soul. Bad dreams."

Beka shook her head, wry, at Bel's deliberate use of the hated 'Cole' to get into a group with Phoebe. ~~Because she could figure out the Cole part, but never would it occur to her that he might want to be with her.~~ "Angelus is an uneven number," she teased.

Phoebe squeezed her hand. "Need to talk?"

Judging by the looks of things... better than you.

You sure you're alright? We could step into the closet for a minute if you want.

(He's tempted to make a comment about how that could be read as sexual, but Beka totally doesn't seem to be in the mood for it.)

Phoebe shook her head at Beka. "I think he's trying to keep an eye on us," she said softly.

Horning in, Shep tells her, "So is 'Valentine'."

*sticks tongue out*

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