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Ethics Class - catch up session, 10am-4pm

Tara posts the class list on the door, as promised in her email, detailing the gaps in each student's participation. Penned at the bottom in a neat round hand is a note: Some of you may have discussed these with TAs out of class. Please inform me if this is the case.

She looks happy and well-rested as she sets up discussion stations around the room.

[ooc: I'll put names on the comment threads for the people who haven't completed them, rather than listing up here. Because I'm odd that way.]

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"Identify something you have done in the course of your life that another person might consider to be evil. To clarify: I don't care whether you think it's evil or not. Try to look at your life experiences from the perspective of an animal rights activist, a member of the Christian Right, someone who lived five hundred years ago. Then, justify your actions, and identify whether you would make the same choice again given a similar situation."

For Bridge, Evie, Lindsey, Logan, Shane, Stark, Veronica, and Xander.

Pulling out her pen, Shane opens her notebook to a blank page... she doesn't need any time to decide what she should write down. Lips pressing into a thin line, her eyes narrow behind her glasses as she writes down her answer on the page.

"Back when I lived in West Hollywood, I turned tricks. I did it so that I could eat and have a place to sleep."

A faint crease appears between her eyebrows as she sits back in her seat and considers the second half of the assignment. Taking a deep breath, she lets it out slowly as she writes down her answer.

"I'd make the same choice again."

When Shane hands in her paper, Tara's eyes glance over the words before rising to meet Shane's.

'I love you', she mouths. She touches her hand to her heart, where the golden cord still links them together, irregardless of distance.

Tucking her hands into the pockets of her hoodie, Shane's smile is small, but warm. 'Love you, too,' she mouths as she backs up and returns to her seat.

Xander notes the questions that he'd listed as not having discussed, and suspects that they're from classes that happened before he transferred in, since they're not at all familiar. Tara did say there'd be some makeup work, though, so he nods and considers the first question.

"I... told someone a lie, that ended up in somebody dying. Or, well, getting sent to Hell; he was already dead. The person I lied to -- a friend -- was trying to kill him anyway, and it needed to happen, because the whole world was in danger if it didn't, but... I guess you could say I withheld information that might've made a difference to my friend.

There are definitely people who'd say that was wrong, maybe even evil. Especially since I didn't like the guy, and sure didn't cry too hard to see him gone.

But you know, I'd do it again - because I honestly believe that if I'd told the truth at the time, my friend would've ended up dead, and maybe the rest of us too."

Stark frowned thoughtfully. He had not contributed to a lot of topics. It would be better to write things down. More time to think that way and less opportunity for freaking out.

We robbed a bank once. Twice, really, but it was the same bank and only because the first time we didn't end up with money, just these creatures that were eating the ship. It was a good plan, except when it didn't work.

We had to. To save them, the slaves and then the ship. There was a lot of slaves and one of them was my ~~friend's~~ ~~big guy who liked to hit me's~~ shipmate's son. We were going to rescue him and the others. We got him out, and the money the second time and our other friend who got captured ~~because he always gets captured~~.

I'd do it again. Do it right this time. Nobody would die.

Evie frowns. She starts scribbling notes, then pipes up. "Well, I pushed my brother down a half-flight of stairs once. But he deserved it, because he'd put salt in my tea that morning." She pauses, tapping her pen against her lips. "Yes, I think I'd do it again. Because, well, he never put salt in my tea again." She gives Tara a hopeful smile.

"Was he hurt? Would it still have been deserved if he had been?"

"Well, not really. He was mostly just angry. If he had been really hurt...I guess it wouldn't have been deserved."

"Uhm," Bridge says, looking down at his desk. "I kinda... well, my dog? RIC? He's SPD property, and when I came here, I brought him with me. So, that's stealing, which is, technically, wrong..." he pauses for a second. "But on the other hand, no one at SPD is really using RIC to the best of his abilities, and they probably don't even care that he's gone, whereas here he gets to run around and help people and do fun stuff, so yeah, I'd do it again."

Veronica writes:

I turned my boyfriend in to the police as a murder suspect. At the time, I had evidence that led me to believe he could be involved. In retrospect, I should have talked to him and allowed him to explain the evidence to me before flying off the handle and turning him in to the authorities.

I'd like to think I'd react differently if placed in the same situation, but I'm not sure.

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