Decision Making Skills, Friday, Period Four

[screwyoumarvel]

"Good afternoon," Steve said to his assembled students. "I'm Steve Rogers, and that's Mr. Rogers to you, and I'll be your teacher for this term. I'd like to think you've made a good decision already by deciding to take this workshop--unless of course you didn't sign up for it yourself, in which case someone else may have made a good decision on your behalf.

"It's been my experience that introductions are traditional for the first week of classes, so we're going to do that, and then we'll discuss a scenario where some bad decision-making was involved. So, I'd like everyone to state their name, where they're from, and why you decided to take this class." Again with the decisions. They were kind of going to be a theme.

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Discussion Scenario

[screwyoumarvel]

"Person A," Steve began, "who works for a UN-supported agency, not the United States government, calls a meeting with Person B to discuss a bill that is before Congress and yet to become a law. Person B, it should be noted, does not currently work in law enforcement. Person B informs Person A that they do not support the new law and will not aid in enforcing it." He paused for a beat. "Person A then calls in an air strike on Person B in an attempt to detain them. At what point did this exchange go off the deep end, and could better decision-making have salvaged it? How?"

No, seriously, he would like to know, because he was still trying to figure out how Maria Hill had thought she was justified bringing an F-16 to the party.

"I will provide clarifying information if anyone needs it, but for those of you who may recognize the scenario I'm talking about, please try not to sway your classmates' opinions too much in any direction."

Re: Discussion Scenario

[ultron_junior]

"Person A has bigtime issues," Victor said, recognizing the scenario perfectly well. It made him a little twitchy, to be honest. "Not much Person B could have done about that other than, like, travel back in time and convince Person A's superior officer not to hire them."

[OOC: Pardon my epic fail, there.]

Re: Discussion Scenario

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

"Probably about two decades before the incident." Darcy guessed. "And they should include a neutral party next time." She paused. "And spell out somewhere that no weapons or police involvement is allowed?"

Re: Discussion Scenario

[yinandyango.livejournal.com]

Fawn frowned a little as she puzzled over the scenario. She almost considered not really saying anything at all, but, again, she was feeling a little more talkative today. "Um," she said, "it sounds like Person A really jumped to conclusions on that one, unless there's something about Person B that the scenario's not mentioning. I mean, Person B just said that he or she doesn't support the law, right? Did they make threats or anything about the law getting passed? Because then maybe Person A should come in and try to stop them..."

Re: Discussion Scenario

[genesishero]

"Air strikes are... generally, as a whole, probably not the best negotiation strategy out there," Evan noted, grimacing a little. He'd learned about... certain events in history classes at his last school, of course, but his particular corner of Kansas must have been just sheltered enough. He hadn't actually witnessed any of that mess personally, for some reason. "But if person A called in an air strike... you kind of have to assume they were somewhere way off the deep end already, and were planning to do that all along, Sir."

The 'Sir' seemed kind of mandatory.

Re: Discussion Scenario

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

"1945," Bucky announced definitively. "The U.N. is a Communist Fascist Nazi Pinko plot to usurp our authority, and it needs to be stopped before it's too late. Does Person B have any airstrikes they can use?"