fandomhigh | Ethics Class [Tuesday, November 20, 2012]

"Hello class," Anakin said, coming into the room with donuts and coffee to share with the group. "Hopefully your time with your classmates over the last week has fostered greater understanding about where they are coming from and helped open your horizons a bit. This week, in this dimension and country, we celebrate Thanksgiving, which is a time to take stock of all of the things we have to be grateful for: friends, family, good health, not being bitten by a gremlin in a few weeks, whatever you can think of. It's also a time to visit family and not get into a fight with your wife's grandmother about politics."

That last part sounded very rehearsed.

He put the donuts down where the class could reach them.

"This weekend posed its own kind of ethical dilemma for many of you, if you woke up with powers you weren't used to having, or without some you were accustomed to keeping under control. Someone unused to telepathy might not know how to control listening to other people's thoughts, those who just acquired lightning might not mean to set things on fire, but it still could happen. My question today is: are you still held up to the ethical mores of, say, not moving everything two feet to the left just because you can, if you are new to having the powers?"

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In need of coffee.

Eat donuts!

Even if you're new to having powers, are you obliged to use them ethically?

Perhaps wish them a happy Thanksgiving if that's a holiday you know.

Longest day ever. LONGEST.

Jessica Drew

"Once you have any kind of power, it's really your responsibility to use it in a non-damaging way," Jessica said. "But there has to be a learning curve at the beginning. If somebody suddenly had telepathy, I can't get too mad at them for unintentionally reading my mind. If somebody got carried away using telekinesis to move a couple things to the right, I get that as long as they help move everything back."

"So, basically yes, but I can't fault stumbles early on."

Marasiah Fel

Alec Lightwood

Korra

Korra had no idea what Thanksgiving was, but long weekend whoo!

Sparkle

"If we people who don't have magic powers or whatever have to play by the rules, why should the people who do get an exception?"

Sparkle shrugged, looking a little bitter. He hadn't been fireproof yesterday, which he'd more or less been expecting, but now he was right back to that powers envy that he'd been running around with before.

"Doesn't mean people will. I mean, if you're going to run around acting like a dick without powers, what the hell says you're going to be responsible with 'em once you've got 'em? Jerks are jerks. You see people with any kind of power just go ahead and abuse it all the time. Money, a good reputation, whatever. I don't see how being able to fly or turn invisible or whatever is suddenly going to inspire people to do the right thing any differently."

Anakin Solo

Jim Kirk

Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

Bucky Katt

"As long as you're not moving MY stuff around, who cares?!" Bucky asked. "Go stand around people who suck until you've got your powers under control, that's what I say."

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