Ethics [Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 1st period]

[sith_happened]

Rory had left for the Democratic National Convention on Sunday, which sort of explained why Anakin looked as sleep-deprived as the rest of the students when he entered the classroom a minute late.

It also explained why he had an infant in his arms and spit-up on the shoulder of his robe. Not that he knew about the spit-up. "Sorry about this," he said, "but Christopher threw a fit at the day care center, and when your baby has Force abilities...well. Now I have to replace all of their high chairs."

Temper tantrums at Anakin's house were so much fun.

"All right," he said, "onto today's ethical dilemma: If you had to choose between killing one person in order to save five others, or doing nothing even though you know that doing nothing means that those five people would die before your eyes, what would you do? And what do you think would be the right thing to do?"

Wasn't this a fun, cheerful subject, students?

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Re: Answer the discussion question [9/4]

[pursuedthestars]

"I doubt the choice is ever gonna be as clear cut as that question makes it," Jim said, shaking his head. "Nothing's ever that cut and dry. You can't make an informed decision without knowing who you'd have to kill, who the five people are, what circumstances stuck you in that situation and so on. It's not possible."

He paused for a second and thought about the question again. "If I had to choose something, I'd kill one person and save five. I wouldn't particularly like it and I'd be hoping that one person was a bad guy who scared kittens and old people or something."