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

[brambless.livejournal.com]

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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Re: Ownership

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

Drawing a line under her previous answer, Shane considers this next set of questions. She'd been in Monday's class at the time so she hadn't really had much of a chance to think about it... and extra credit couldn't hurt, even though, technically, she wasn't getting any for her participation in class.

"The Indians didn't believe that we owned land and I guess I kind of agree with them. It was here before we were. How can anyone own rocks and trees?

I think if you make something with your hands, you can own it then, but not if you just buy it. Owning people and pets ... you own them only as much as they let you.

My own body... I guess that depends on what I want to do with it. If I wanted to kill myself, they wouldn't let me because euthanasia's illegal. So does that mean the government owns my death? If I got pregnant but wanted an abortion, in some states, it's illegal again so... same thing.

I think... my soul is... mine. My mind. My voice. My heart. You can't touch them, but they're like my rocks, my trees."