Ethics [Tuesday, September 17, 2013]

[sith_happened]

"Ethical choices aren't always highly charged situations where souls are on the line in a split second," Anakin announced from where he'd met his class in front of a grocery store across the causeway.

It had taken Anakin years to realize that, but he was a naturally overdramatic overdramatic person. "The choices you make in everyday life will affect the choices you make in highly charged situations. If you are morally ambiguous on the small stuff...well, it's hard to break that habit on the big things."

"You will each face a different scenario inside the store that I've pre-arranged," he said, "and then we'll discuss what you did and why you chose that."

Comments

Re: Discussion!

[flickofthewrist]

"I left, didn't offer to pay," Flick said, shrugging. "Accidents happen and grocery stores expect that. Are they gonna make some tiny child pay for eggs if he runs into them? They might try but they'd get bashed in the media because it would inevitably end up there once the mother of the child filed a lawsuit."

So cynical.

Re: Discussion!

[sith_happened]

"But you aren't a small child," Anakin pointed out. "Do you think different rules might apply to you?"

Re: Discussion!

[flickofthewrist]

"They don't know I'm not a child," he said, shrugging. "And I'm not gonna run up and tell them either."

Re: Discussion!

[sith_happened]

"You don't feel guilty about that."

It wasn't a question or a judgment.

Re: Discussion!

[flickofthewrist]

"I don't."

Even if it wasn't a question, Flick still answered it.

"It's just eggs. I got bigger things to worry about then breaking some cheap eggs."

Re: Discussion!

[sith_happened]

"Is there anything in the grocery store that you would stick around to help with if it had fallen over?" Anakin asked. "Tower of toilet paper? Three thousand soup cans?"

Why do they even stack soup cans? Honestly.

Re: Discussion!

[flickofthewrist]

Yeah, Flick gave him a look for the soup can question. He wasn't questioning the stacking but more the amount of cans in questions.

"Something breakable, maybe," Flick said, shrugging. "That could hurt someone if they stepped on it. Like glass or noxious gas."

Re: Discussion!

[sith_happened]

"Do they sell a lot of noxious gas in the grocery store?" Anakin wondered.

Re: Discussion!

[flickofthewrist]

"Do a lot of islands turn girls into guys for a weekend?" Flick countered. "No, but I'm sure there's one out there somewhere."

Re: Discussion!

[sith_happened]

"We should probably check T&C," Anakin admitted.