http://brambless.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] brambless.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2005-11-28 08:53 pm
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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.]

Re: When to Intervene?

[identity profile] mparkerceo.livejournal.com 2005-11-28 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"In the case of someone dying painfully, I think everything should be tried before letting them go." Parker's lips thin. "But if it gets pointless, and causes more pain, and they don't want it, I suppose... I suppose that's one time when you don't have the right to keep them."

Her voice gets quieter. "But in cases aside from long-term illness and pain, I'm not sure there *is* a scenario where you have to take the endangered person's decision over your own. I was going to say that if it would mean costing other people's lives over saving one person, that would be the time to step back. You don't take everyone else down because you want one person to live... But if then again, maybe you at least *try*." She rubs her head. "I'm sorry, I'm getting lost in the possibilities here."