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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"Yes," Anna said. "I don't, um. I don't eat." This was not information she usually just shared out, but she couldn't come up with another plausible reason she would be refusing chocolate.

"Well, I guess if you don't eat, sure. Thanks," Maddie said. And then couldn't resist asking, "Liquid diet?"

Anna handed the box over and shook her head. "No. I'm just...kind of a ghost." By which she meant she was totally a ghost.

Miss Possible Future Walking Ghost perked right up at that. "Like... the dead, walking through walls kind?"

"There's another kind?" Anna asked, confused.

"Okay, I guess not technically," Maddie conceded. "I've just heard of, you know, people losing cohesion and things like that."

Totally smooth, yes.

Anna had never heard of such a thing, but then, this was Fandom. "No," she said. "I'm just dead."

It might be obvious even as the words were coming out of her mouth that Maddie wasn't sure whether or not this was the right reaction. "I'm sorry?"

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