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

[sith_happened]

"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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Re: Answer the discussion question [3/21]

[nips-your-nose.livejournal.com]

"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]

[sith_happened]

"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."