fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, February 14, 2nd period]

"Good morning," Anakin said, giving the students a slight smile as they entered. "In honor of Valentine's Day, I've given three of you a chocolate bar, three of you a box of candy, and two of you nothing at all. Please look under your desks to see which you've received."

He began pacing between the desks. "Some of you might be feeling some decidedly less than loving emotions my direction, or in the direction of the students with the larger amount of chocolate. Some of you might be pretending to care deeply about dental hygiene or ruining your lunchtime appetite in order to displace the feelings of envy you might have right now."

He paused. "Envy is a strange emotion. None of you had this chocolate when you came into the room, nor were you expecting any. Two of you will be walking out exactly the way you came in, and yet you might feel cheated. My questions to you today are: what do you think inside of us makes us envious of what other people have, even if we might have other gifts that offset what they've received? And from an ethical standpoint, how would you use this common human flaw to manipulate someone into giving you something you want?"

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Jack didn't even need a candy bar to participate in this conversation.

"In some cases, those other gifts might offset the difference, but that doesn't mean they necessarily make up for it. I mean... a guy that's given food in a desert is still going to envy the one that's been given water. I can control the weather, but I don't know if that makes up for three centuries without a real conversation."

Anakin nodded. "And it can be hard to realize what we have when faced with what we don't."

"Right," Jack agreed, nodding a little. "I mean, the hungry man in the desert... he'd probably trade what he had for the water if he was given the option, but he'd still hurt for it somewhere down the road. He's got something that he needs, just... not necessarily everything he wants."

He looked thoughtful for a minute.

"If I had to choose between being able to talk to people and being Jack Frost, I don't know which I'd prefer. I want both. Here's good in that I can actually kind of have that."

"And when graduation comes, then what?" Anakin asked.

"Then it's... right back to being invisible, intangible, and not believed in, I guess," Jack replied, frowning a little. "Unless I can convince my teachers that I need to be held back or something."

Was that a thing he could do?

Anakin smiled. "We don't do that," he said. "We throw you back into the world."

"Or back out of it," Jack replied with a sigh. And then he shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. "That's life, I guess."

"It sucks a good portion of the time," Anakin agreed.

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