fandomhigh | Advanced Criminal Justice (Class 2), Period 2, 01.12.05

[OOC: Tuesday was fun. Please, no 300-comments today. Knock about 100 off that total, please? Otherwise, good work. If you have Homework or EC from Tuesday, you can drop it off below. One note about fiction in this class: You can know that when Tick talks about Looney Tunes or Disney, he is talking about a fictional cartoon. Tick's take on it - a take that isn't wrong - is that these cartoons aren't fictional, they're just historical records from another dimension. Question his view to him and he will look at you funny. Class Info Post.]

The Tick stood behind the podium at the front of the class as usual. On the podium was a small plastic figurine of an anthropomorphic, gray rabbit. Lockheed was perched on his regular bookshelf.

"Hello, class! For the next week, we will be focusing on one individual and his relationship with that cute girl next door that we call Justice. This individual's name? Mr. Bugs Bunny." Tick held up the figurine. There may have been a Six Flags logo at the base. "Those of you who had class with me last semester may recognize this rascally little rabbit. He was one of the offenders in the Hunting Season Lecture. He is a busy guy with a lot of enemies, so we have plenty of reasons to talk about him."

"Today we will focus on his relationship with a Mr. Yosemite Sam. While we have previously discussed Mr. Bunny's reckless and devious - if not precisely criminal - behavior, it is, up to a certain point, difficult to blame him for instigating anything with this varmint. Mr. Sam is, quite frankly, a vile human being, obsessed with his own personal gain and is willing to attempt to murder innocents in this pursuit. I haven't seen any accounts of him successfully murdering - or even successfully shooting - anyone, but he always leads with his guns whenever someone poses a threat. Mr. Bunny often poses a threat, usually due to sheer coincidence."

"As we've seen time and again, there are repeated murder attempts that Mr. Bunny refuses to report to the police. Perhaps he likes to get out of trouble on his own. Perhaps he finds being shot at exciting. Perhaps he actually wants to die, but he hasn't found someone capable of actually shooting him. I can't speak for Mr. Bunny. But I can say that Mr. Sam has it in for him, coming back time and again even after falls that should have killed him! All to threaten Mr. Bunny some more."

"My question to you, class, is if you came across a clash between Mr. Bunny and Mr. Sam, how would you deal with the situation? Some questions you should think about but not necessarily answer before you give your response folow: Do you let them sort it out themselves? Arrest one? Send one or both to a counsellor of some sort? And when would you interfere? Would you take the chance and get inbetween them? Or would you take another chance and count on Mr. Bunny outsmarting Mr. Sam once again, hoping that both survive and you can confront each individual while they are momentarily alone?"

"Discuss, class!"

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"Well, it'd depend on what kind of injuring was going on and why," Angel said. "I mean look at me: I go to the cops back home and say a demon's trying to kill me, I'm going to get laughed out of the station. Does that mean I should ignore the demon though? If I'm the only person around who gets that that's a threat, I should do something to stop it.

"I figure same with the bunny. He's got a threat that nobody in authority's going to help him with, Sam shows signs he's going to hurt others. I say the bunny's within his rights to try to act."

"So, because of your own experience," Rory nodded slightly towards Angel, "are you more inclined to believe a situation like this? And from what we're given to understand - that there have been multiple attempted and possibly successful attacks on individuals other than said rabbit - one has to wonder why no one else has noticed this violent streak of Mr. Sam's."

"I'm more inclined to believe it," Angel agreed. "I mean what's a rabbit going to do to get help from society? If this guy's decided to be a champion for the other rabbits who feel helpless, I don't know that that's a wrong thing."

"It's not, provided that he doesn't put others in harm's way or actually work against the law iteself," Rory agreed. "And even then, I think it's a question of ethics rather than black and white legality."

"Oh, great, so I guess we're all going to fail that lesson," Angel said with a wink.

"Given our prior training on the subject, I'd say so, yeah," Rory grinned. "Maybe we can undo the damage."

"It's time for the healing to begin," Angel agreed.

"Former Ethics Students Anonymous?" Rory suggested.

"FESA?"

"If I could think of a funnier acronym, I'd go with it," she shrugged.

"Way too early in the morning," Angel agreed.

"Teach Ethics Responsibly Always?" Tick suggested.

There was something slightly wrong with that acronym, though.

"Hmm." Angel thought about it. "I like the sentiment."

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