Ethics, Tuesday

[saddeserthermit]

On the downside, Anakin was still a cat.

On the upside, at least this time there were no interlopers.

Still, it was a harried-looking Obi-Wan who met them in the Danger Shop that day. He had been forced to put the eopies indoors for the time being; there was something about the local wildlife that seemed rather more menacing than it had been previously.

But that was another matter.

"Today, we will be trying our hand at an ethical exercise," he said. One he had dug up from the old logs of this class, in fact. "Lies are often seen as something terrible, something inherently injust. There are even some who would argue that one must always speak the truth."

Personally, he did usually speak the truth. He just chose his points of view wisely.

"But wartime and conflict can make such lofty notions less tenable," he said. "Occupying forces often pit local citizens against one another. Such is the case in this exercise. If I read off your name, you are a fugitive, attempting to escape persecution. You will have found yourself in the home of another students, the military hot on your heels. You have three minutes to convince the homeowner that hiding you is worth the risk. If you fail, you will be killed."

He glanced down at his datapad.

"If I do not read off your name, you are a homeowner," he said. "You have to decide if you will lie and say you have no idea where your classmate is, while your classmate tries to persuade you not to surrender them. If you get caught lying, you'll be killed as well. And your final option is, of course, to turn in your classmate for a small monetary reward."

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In hiding.

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Karina Lyle

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Kaylin Neya

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Ronan Lynch

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Barry Ween

Listen to the Lecture

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Short as it is.

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[wildandbrave]

A fugitive trying to escape persecution? Cosette chewed on her lip in thought. How was she ever going to imagine what that felt like? It wasn't as if she knew anyone she could ask . . .

Negotiate!

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Fugitives:
Carmilla Karnstein
Alana
Amy Raudenfeld
Minako Aino
Kathy Li
Celia Bowen
Eleanor (Lamb) Holloway
Cosette Fauchelevent
Barry Ween
Ichabod Crane

Homeowners:
Elsa of Arendelle
Soren Bearstar
Alex Mack
Ronan Lynch
Kaylin Neya
Andros
Garik Loran
Karina Lyle
Joker Moreau
Kira Yukimura

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[notamascot]

Kaylin wasn't turning anyone in.

Not unless they'd done something really bad anyway.

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[not_a_moonie]

Alana slid into the seat across from Kaylin, smiling sheepishly. "So, what do I have to bribe you for you not to sell me out?" she asked.

This was fantasy. She was totally going to pretend to be incredibly rich.

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[notamascot]

"Bribery?" Kaylin repeated, looking rather insulted. "You're trying to bribe me? I don't want your money."

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[not_a_moonie]

Alana raised her eyebrows. "Well, I don't have anything else I'm going to give you," she said. "What do you want?"

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[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

While Ronan didn't care much about money, he also didn't really care about hiding anyone out for their benefit. Hopefully someone was pretty damn persuasive.

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[sarcastic-vamp.livejournal.com]

Carmilla was much more interested in just re-reading -- again and again -- the letter tucked carefully in her pocket. So she wasn't giving the assignment much effort, which really wasn't much different from any other day.

"So," she said, turning to Ronan. "What do I have to appeal to for you to hide me in your basement from the evil forces that I am oh so afraid of?"

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[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

Well, they were pretty alike in not giving the assignment much thought then. A good partnership here.

"What've you got to offer?" he asked in return. "Better be something that's more enticing than money. I've got enough of that."

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[sarcastic-vamp.livejournal.com]

"Money's overrated anyway," Carmilla said. And she wasn't going to try to throw herself at him, either, because ewww boy cooties.

"Well, since this is fantasy land," she said, "how about I offer you something money really can't buy, like...immortality."

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[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

Break the law?

Karina... wasn't likely to do that, which meant that anyone who approached her was going to have to do some really fast talking if they wanted her to hide them.

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[wildandbrave]

Would shamelessly puppyfacing and trying to go for sympathy work? Because that was Cosette's go-to tactic here, and in fact she already had a wide-eyed and pleading expression on her face when she approached.

"Please, can't you help me? They're coming for me and I don't even know what it is I've done!"

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[gavegoodface]

Shockingly enough, Face was highly sympathetic to anyone you might be inclined to hide from an oppressive government.

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[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy felt pretty frantic, so it wasn't much of a stretch to get her to act that way. "Please," she said, hands literally shaking. "You need to hide me, you have to."

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[gavegoodface]

"Okay, come in." Face totally needed to be convinced, yeah.

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[spin_kick_snap]

"Thank you," she said fervently. "Thank you so much!"

Did this mean she could blow off the rest of the class period and fret about her mirror? Because she could be down with that.

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[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Sitting in a class about ethics, trying to determine right and wrong, made Joker squirm a little after what he'd been up to the night before.

His home would be open to any who needed to avoid persecution, of course. That went without saying. Probably. If they were being unjustly hunted, and could prove it. Or they made it worth his while.

Talk to the Teacher

[saddeserthermit]

He is there, looking... contemplative.

OOC

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