Ethics [Thursday, March 21, 2013, 2nd period]

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"Today we are going to discuss the ethics of a situation you will be pushed into throughout your lives--," Anakin said, "--working in a group. whether it's for a grade or for a job, the prevailing theory is that more people working together is a good idea even if inevitably there is always one member who is absolutely dead weight that you will want to kill."

Anakin made a slight face. "All right, the scenario is this: you're in a group with four other people. You have a project due in two weeks on a subject you don't know anything about. One of the members of the group can only meet for a half hour once a week and never checks their email, two of the others spend their time making out instead of working, and the third one works hard but can't spell even a little bit. After you turn in your project, your teacher wants to know how your group worked. Do you tell the truth, knowing it will sink the other people's grades?"

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Sign in [3/21]

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Annoyed already.

Re: Sign in [3/21]

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Jack Frost

Re: Sign in [3/21]

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Paddra Nsu-Yeul

Re: Sign in [3/21]

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Maddie Berry

Re: Sign in [3/21]

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Surreal

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Anna Korlov

Re: Sign in [3/21]

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Victor Mancha tardily

Listen to the lecture [3/21]

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Doesn't this sound like fun?

Re: Listen to the lecture [3/21]

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Jack... still wasn't so sure that this class really applied to him. After all, when in his life would he ever have to worry about being stuck in a team situation, after graduating and leaving this place?

Still, he was giving the discussion topic some fair consideration. Because... well, even if he was just here for a couple of years, he supposed it might be relevant somewhere down the road while he was a student on the island.

Answer the discussion question [3/21]

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Would you tell the teacher how it had really gone?

Re: Answer the discussion question [3/21]

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"Now, I'm as much for no responsibilities and playful funtimes as anyone," Jack noted, "but there's a difference between embracing a snow day, and leaving one guy to do all the work."

Especially when that one guy was him.

"So of course I'm going to hold the rest of the group accountable. I mean, why should I do all the work and not get actual recognition for that?"

Yes, it was all about recognition for the kid that had been invisible for three hundred years. He wasn't even going to pretend otherwise.

Re: Answer the discussion question [3/21]

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"Peer pressure sometimes wins out over doing the right thing," Anakin said with a shrug. "I never really understood it, but I wasn't exactly popular as a student."

Re: Answer the discussion question [3/21]

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"I think that even if we did not tell the teacher how it had gone that the teacher would know," Yeul said, shrugging slightly. "My own attention to detail can be erratic and that would leave only the poor speller to have done most of the work. How could the teacher not know in the face of that?"

Yeul had no problems admitting that she would likely be part of the problem in this scenario.

Re: Answer the discussion question [3/21]

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Anakin smiled. "We do tend to know you better than you'd probably prefer," he said.

Re: Answer the discussion question [3/21]

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Surreal just shrugged. "My work tends to be distinctive," she said dryly, "-and I take credit for it. If they're that bad, I probably just did my part and didn't cover for them in the first place, except for the speller. That's not their fault."

Talk to Anakin [3/21]

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OOC

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