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fandomhigh2012-04-12 08:39 am
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Ethics [Thursday, April 12, 2012, 1st period]
Anakin leaned against his desk at the front of the classroom. "This our last class before final exams, and so I want to introduce one final school of ethics: liberalism." He paused, frowning lightly. "And not in the Fox News sense, where everything they do is evil and possibly related to communism. Or Islam. I don't understand." Despite many years on this planet, there were still some facets of life in America that eluded him.
"Anyway, according to many modern liberals," he continued, "moral obligations can arise in only two ways. First there are universal duties that we owe to every being, like the duty to avoid harming people unnecessarily. Secondly, there are voluntary obligations that we acquire by consent, as when we agree to help someone or promise to be faithful to our partners and friends. According to many modern liberals, there are no other types of moral obligation."
He began pacing between the desks. "Critics of liberalism disagree. They say there is a third type of moral obligation that is neither universal nor voluntary: we can be morally obligated to a particular community even though we haven’t assumed the obligation voluntarily. Obligations of membership and loyalty can arise from shared identities, communities, and traditions: because we’re someone’s son or daughter, someone’s friend, a member of a particular community, or a citizen of a particular country or planet. The Jedi Order in my time worried about such obligations and how they might affect our Order's larger mission to provide justice to the galaxy without prejudice, so those who were trained as Jedi were removed from their family and homeworlds as soon as possible, often as infants or toddlers."
He waved a hand, looking slightly embarrassed. "But that was just one solution. Who do you think is right--the liberals who only see two obligations, or their critics?"
"Anyway, according to many modern liberals," he continued, "moral obligations can arise in only two ways. First there are universal duties that we owe to every being, like the duty to avoid harming people unnecessarily. Secondly, there are voluntary obligations that we acquire by consent, as when we agree to help someone or promise to be faithful to our partners and friends. According to many modern liberals, there are no other types of moral obligation."
He began pacing between the desks. "Critics of liberalism disagree. They say there is a third type of moral obligation that is neither universal nor voluntary: we can be morally obligated to a particular community even though we haven’t assumed the obligation voluntarily. Obligations of membership and loyalty can arise from shared identities, communities, and traditions: because we’re someone’s son or daughter, someone’s friend, a member of a particular community, or a citizen of a particular country or planet. The Jedi Order in my time worried about such obligations and how they might affect our Order's larger mission to provide justice to the galaxy without prejudice, so those who were trained as Jedi were removed from their family and homeworlds as soon as possible, often as infants or toddlers."
He waved a hand, looking slightly embarrassed. "But that was just one solution. Who do you think is right--the liberals who only see two obligations, or their critics?"
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The narrative might have gotten slightly away from Anakin there.
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"I don't think you're really obligated to do things because you belong to a group, or because you're someone's friend or whatever," she said thoughtfully. "I mean, say you belong to a group that meets three times a week, no exceptions unless you've got a group-related thing at that time, and if you're one minute late you get glared at for the whole meeting." KRISTY. "You might think you need to follow every rule, but being in the group is voluntary, so you can just leave when you realize they're insane. Just like you can move out of a community."
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Kumbaya, the Force, kumbaya
Kumbaya, the Force, kumbaya
Oh, the Force
Kumbaya
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