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.]

Comments

Re: Justifiable Murder

[soldtoarmenians]

"Self-defense, and defending people who were being attacked. Stopping somebody who was gonna cause widespread death and destruction, too, or already had.

Not saying I'd be happy about killing somebody that can walk and talk and think, but if all the use that for is to hurt other people, and there's no way they're gonna change?"

Xander thinks hard about the other options. "I... don't know if I could kill somebody I cared about, even if they asked me to. Mercy killing, I mean, not if they headed up to the clocktower with a semi-automatic."

Re: Justifiable Murder

[brambless.livejournal.com]

"And if they went up the clocktower? Would you be able to stop them, even though you loved them?"

Re: Justifiable Murder

[soldtoarmenians]

"I..." Xander frowns and looks at his hands. "Maybe? I hope so, but I don't honestly know. Don't ever want to need to know."

Re: Justifiable Murder

[brambless.livejournal.com]

Nodding, Tara replies softly, "It's the sort of thing you can never really know unless you're put in the position. Let's try it this way - would you want to be able to do it?"

Re: Justifiable Murder

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander thinks of the example he gave for the previous question - and then he thinks of how it might be for him to have to do it - to Buffy. Or Willow. What it might have been like, years ago, if some clumsy idiot in the Bronze hadn't taken the decision to kill a friend out of his hands entirely.

"In theory, yeah. Somebody needs to be the guy who can do that. In practice..." Xander shakes his head. "I really don't want it to be me."

Re: Justifiable Murder

[brambless.livejournal.com]

"I hope it never has to be," Tara replies quietly.