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

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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]

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"Doing nothing's never an option," Anakin spoke up, looking stubbornly determined about it -- partly because it hurt his head less. Look, it'd been weird enough to be younger than a cousin who hadn't even been born yet, and half Jaina's age. Seeing his grandfather the former Sith Lord with a baby who was his uncle was almost more than he could deal with. "If I had the opportunity to save multiple people's lives, I'd take it."

Watch him just assume the one person he had to kill was the enemy.