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fandomhigh2013-01-10 12:50 pm
sith_happened) wrote in fandomhigh2013-01-10 12:50 pm
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Ethics [Thursday, January 10, 2013]
Anakin, as usual, was rigidly on time for class. Hopefully everyone else was as well because he closed the door behind him as he entered the room, coming within centimeters of catching his robe in the hinges.
"Good morning," he said. "I'm Anakin Skywalker and this is Ethics. If you're in the wrong place, now's the time to get up and flee."
If you were in the right place, it wasn't bad advice either, depending on Anakin's mood from week to week. He paced in front of their desks as he spoke, Jedi robe swirling behind him. "Most classes this week focus on introductions, but I'm the Dean of Students, so I'll figure out who's who as we go along. Fandom as you might have realized already, is a multi-dimensional nexus where beings from many different places and times come together." He made sure to look each student in the eyes as he spoke. "As such, what you may feel to be moral and immoral might be completely different than the person sitting next to you. I encourage discussion, even heated discussion, but it must be phrased in a constructive way. Responses like 'yes, but that's dumb,' 'yes, but you're dumb', or punching someone are not constructive and will not be tolerated in this class."
He'd had all of those reactions himself before but this wasn't about the ethics of the Ethics teacher.
"We'll touch on unpleasant subjects in this class, some of which might not be all that hypothetical to your life's experience," he added. "If you prefer not to discuss a particular scenario, just let me know by shaking your head and I'll skip you until the next week."
Anakin clasped his hands together. "Now, let's begin: 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?"
He liked to start them off easy.
"Good morning," he said. "I'm Anakin Skywalker and this is Ethics. If you're in the wrong place, now's the time to get up and flee."
If you were in the right place, it wasn't bad advice either, depending on Anakin's mood from week to week. He paced in front of their desks as he spoke, Jedi robe swirling behind him. "Most classes this week focus on introductions, but I'm the Dean of Students, so I'll figure out who's who as we go along. Fandom as you might have realized already, is a multi-dimensional nexus where beings from many different places and times come together." He made sure to look each student in the eyes as he spoke. "As such, what you may feel to be moral and immoral might be completely different than the person sitting next to you. I encourage discussion, even heated discussion, but it must be phrased in a constructive way. Responses like 'yes, but that's dumb,' 'yes, but you're dumb', or punching someone are not constructive and will not be tolerated in this class."
He'd had all of those reactions himself before but this wasn't about the ethics of the Ethics teacher.
"We'll touch on unpleasant subjects in this class, some of which might not be all that hypothetical to your life's experience," he added. "If you prefer not to discuss a particular scenario, just let me know by shaking your head and I'll skip you until the next week."
Anakin clasped his hands together. "Now, let's begin: 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?"
He liked to start them off easy.
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And after three hundred years of watching people grow old and pass on, Jack had quite the understanding of the human life cycle, if nothing else.
"Not everybody gets to live forever. And I think mortality might be something that gets easier to accept, the older you are. People just start to look... tired, I think. With little kids, it's like they're just waking up and seeing the world for the first time, every morning. There's something special about that."
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"Interesting," Anakin said with a small smile.
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He had no idea. It felt right, so far as making choices like that ever could, but he'd been watching humanity from the sidelines for three centuries. He had no idea if other people would agree that it was the right thing to do or not.
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Somewhere the ghost of Obi-Wan was laughing his blue ass off.
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