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fandomhigh2013-11-12 12:43 pm
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Ethics [Tuesday, November 12, 2013]
Do you hear the sound of robotic screaming, class?
Do you have a very bad feeling about this?
Good. It's terrifying robot toddler week!
"Good morning, class," Anakin said loudly, a slightly fiendish smile on his face. "You each get one of these delightful children to care for this week."
The delightful children were all shrieking their scary faces red. "Each of them has been programmed to be able to walk, climb, and knows a few words, but tend to communicate mostly by yelling and pointing." And throwing things if you guess wrong. "They're each approximately 18 months old, so they are not yet toilet trained."
Oh, you lucky, lucky students.
"They are also teething, and half of them have developed colds as well."
He picked up one of the shrieking children and they stopped yelling immediately because he was a giant cheater. "In addition to keeping them alive--they're programmed to let me know if you neglect them in any way or lock them in a closet for the week--you must also take them out for regular exercise and to face the questions and stares of rude people who have Views on teenaged parents."
Or at least teenaged parents hauling around terrifying robots. "This is a practical ethical exercise: you must decide if it's morally correct to give the child nothing but cookies just because it will shut her up for ten minutes, or marathon Curious George for ten hours because it means the baby isn't climbing your bookshelf or dropping your phone into the toilet."
Anakin enjoyed this class far, far, far too much.
"Come up and pick up your child and tell me his or her name. It's your first ethical choice: if you name it something horrifying, that will probably come back to bite you."
Do you have a very bad feeling about this?
Good. It's terrifying robot toddler week!
"Good morning, class," Anakin said loudly, a slightly fiendish smile on his face. "You each get one of these delightful children to care for this week."
The delightful children were all shrieking their scary faces red. "Each of them has been programmed to be able to walk, climb, and knows a few words, but tend to communicate mostly by yelling and pointing." And throwing things if you guess wrong. "They're each approximately 18 months old, so they are not yet toilet trained."
Oh, you lucky, lucky students.
"They are also teething, and half of them have developed colds as well."
He picked up one of the shrieking children and they stopped yelling immediately because he was a giant cheater. "In addition to keeping them alive--they're programmed to let me know if you neglect them in any way or lock them in a closet for the week--you must also take them out for regular exercise and to face the questions and stares of rude people who have Views on teenaged parents."
Or at least teenaged parents hauling around terrifying robots. "This is a practical ethical exercise: you must decide if it's morally correct to give the child nothing but cookies just because it will shut her up for ten minutes, or marathon Curious George for ten hours because it means the baby isn't climbing your bookshelf or dropping your phone into the toilet."
Anakin enjoyed this class far, far, far too much.
"Come up and pick up your child and tell me his or her name. It's your first ethical choice: if you name it something horrifying, that will probably come back to bite you."
Re: Pick up your kid!
Re: Pick up your kid!
Marks, she'd meant to say marks.
Re: Pick up your kid!
"People can be really terrible at caring for children," he said quietly. "Believe me, I know. I have no idea about who my father might be and while my mother did her best...we were slaves. If I got hurt, Watto was more upset that his investment got roughed up. I don't think he remembered I was a living being most of the time. Sounds familiar?"
Re: Pick up your kid!
Re: Pick up your kid!
Re: Pick up your kid!