fandomhigh | Advanced Criminal Justice, Class 15, Period 1, 02.28.06

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The TIck was standing at the front of the class as usual when his students walked in. Lockheed was resting on his normal shelf.

"Hello, class! First off, a big thank you to Rory for taking care of class on Thursday and helping me out in regards to my fish on Friday."

"Today, we'll be talking about competence and intent. If you want to do Wrong very badly for whatever reason and you're just miserable at it, does it actually count as doing Wrong? For example, this past Saturday, a fleet of alien goldfish attacked the school in order to get revenge for my late fish's death, even though she died a natural death. Well, technically, they only attacked Rory in hopes of getting to me, but an attack on even one student from an outside force basically amounts to an attack on the school."

"Anyway, these fish floated around in these teeny little bubbles that popped if they touched anything. I defeated the attack force by standing there and letting the fish hit me. It was terrible strategy on their part. I ended up throwing all of them into an aquarium that now sits in the lobby."

"So, my question to you is this: considering that the fishie fleet really wanted to kill both Rory and myself, does the fact that they were woefully unprepared for the most minor of skirmishes mean we should be lenient towards them with their punishment? Again, with a bunch of fish, the best punishment seemed to be putting them on display in the dorm lobby where they can make people smile even though they're noisy little guys. Just in terms of general crime, I mean. And can you think of any other crimes where the execution is so poor where you might let the criminal slide despite the intent? Get creative!

"This week's metaphor is the sport of your choice. And the extra credit is to name one of the new fish in the dorm lobby."

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"If you intend to hurt someone, regardless of if you succeed, you deserve to be punished," Veronica muttered.

Archie didn't know whether or not Veronica could see him, but he was nodding fiercely in agreement.

Veronica did, in fact, notice Archie nodding in agreement and she gave him a small smile.

Archie smiled back. Because it made ignoring Cameron and Jaye a little easier.

Veronica wasn't sure why, but she was suddenly filled with the overwhelming desire to give Archie a big hug and bake him cookies.

Had Archie been able to tell what Veronica was thinking, he wouldn't have hesitated to make it known that he had no objections to hugs and cookies whatsoever.

"Agreed, Veronica. But I'm asking about the severity of the punishment. Obviously, someone who successfully hurts someoone should be punished worse than someone who failed. But does someone who did a really poor job in his attempt deserve more leniency than someone who could have actually succeeded?"

"Well that depends on your definition of successfully hurting someone," she said. "Not all pain is physical. And it may not matter to the person being hurt how poor the attempt was."

"Good points. But in the case of the attacking alien fish from this weekend, do you think that imprisoning them in the dorms suffices since neither Rory nor I were hurt? Or should they have been taken to the town authorities, or maybe the military since it was, technically, an alien invasion?"

"And I believe I can speak for both myself and Rory when I say that it was strange, but there's no lingering emotional trauma from it."

"We've got worse things around here to deal with than attacking alien fish," Veronica replied in an incredibly sarcastic tone. She immediately felt guilty about snapping at Professor Tick, but there was no way for her to take this topic lightly.

"That's true," Tick said. It was also missing the point of the discussion, but if Veronica was snapping like this, he didn't want to push her any more.

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