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Ethics, Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Two Jedi stood at the front of the class looking solemn. "Welcome to your final exam," Anakin said, passing out the sheets of paper. "As with everything in ethics, we are more concerned with your thought process than your actual answer. If you can live with yourself and the choices you've made, then you've succeeded in our eyes."

Unless you're fine with slaughtering children or something. Then they'll judge the hell out of you.

"May the Force be with you, and enjoy your breaks."

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Excited.

Lottie Grote

Isabela

Merrill

Gwen Stacy

A rebel who has threatened to explode several bombs in crowded areas has been caught. Unfortunately, she has already planted the bombs and they are scheduled to go off in a short time. It's possible that hundreds of people may die and the authorities cannot make her divulge the location of the bombs by conventional methods. In exasperation, some high level official suggests torture. This would be illegal, of course, but the official thinks that it is nevertheless the right thing to do in this desperate situation. What do you do and why?

a) Torture her to get the information. There's no time left to be reasonable.
b) Torture her and her family to get the information, then blow up her planet. If you're going to do something illegal, might as well be really, really thorough.
c) Continue working through the the legal structure of the judicial system and hope for the best.

c) Because we're not that one US president nor one of them Stalin types and science has well shown that torture doesn't make folks tell you truths anyway.

Also, why isn't anyone out there investigating with bomb sniffing dogs and robots and things? GO INVESTIGATE government people!

Isabela had the strangest sense of deja-vu, though she couldn't for the life of her figure out why.

d) why don't you try a nice bribe first?

Edited 2015-12-16 17:28 (UTC)

Come up with a magical way to get the information.

That wasn't one of the options, Merrill.

You have a friend whose homeworld has long since been embroiled in a civil war. The war has gone on for generations, and there appears to be no end in sight. However, your friend and some of their companions back home believe they can put a stop to it by getting in between the warring factions. Since you have powers or skills that they do not, they ask for your help. Do you intervene, despite having only one, biased, second-hand account of the war and what might be fueling it? Or do you refuse, and potentially abandon your friend to a very dangerous situation?

a) You go and fight. You're loyal to your friend, and don't want to see them or their world suffer. You'll sort out the complexities later.
b) You go, but you only provide support, such as setting up a hospital or attempting to mediate between the factions.
c) You try to reason with your friend. Are they sure they can simply fix something that has been broken for so many generations? Perhaps they need to take a step back and find another way to solve the problem.
d) You refuse to intervene at all. It isn't your fight.

c) If nothing else, maybe your friend can give you more information about what all this war business is even about. Also I will maybe see if they might not rather get their friends and family and move somewhere else as this is a valid response to horrible wars.

d)

c)

d)

a)

...how good are friend are they?

You're involved in a conflict of your own. There's a time limit: if you don't do something quickly, the entire planet, or even galaxy, might suffer. But your mentor insists on stopping and helping every single lost soul he comes across along the way. Do you:

a) Support him in this: you should help on the small as well as the large scale, after all.
b) Go along with it, but make your disapproval very clear and try to speed things up.
c) Argue with him loudly and provide an incentive to stop doing it.
d) Abandon him and all of his lost causes and go save the planet yourself.

Edited 2015-12-16 13:36 (UTC)

d) He can do the little stuff and the big stuff happens at the same time! Win win!

b) unless there's coin in it ~~or that stupid conscience comes into play~~ then a)

You're a part of an Order that wields great physical and mental power, which seeks to do good in the universe, and as a result, they have very strict rules about emotional entanglements. Yet one day, you meet someone who moves your heart deeply. What do you do?

a) you understand that the rules were designed as such for a reason, so you quit the Order before beginning a relationship with this person;
b) you understand that the rules were designed as such for a reason, so you quietly extricate yourself from the other party's life so you can focus on doing great good elsewhere;
c) you don't see the rules as having any value, and continue to quietly see this person on the side while continuing your work.

Wait what is the reason for the rule? Emotions are a thing that happen. Even if you don't want them to. This rule seems pretty silly. So I guess c).

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ha.

c)

What particular vice or issue do you believe is your greatest stumbling block in making ethical choices? Do you consider this a 'bug', or a 'feature' in yourself?

I'm only 14. I don't know if this is a 'bug' or a 'feature', but I suspect I will grow out of it so I'm not particularly worried.

Isabela had mysteriously spilled all ink over this answer... of course she'd had to break her pen to do that.

Bonus question:
You've spent a large portion of your life happily repressing some past issue. Someone has given you cause to reexamine your reaction to this issue. You:
a) realize that their perspective is flawed, but they may have some point, and turn your attention internally;
b) realize that their perspective is flawed, and your coping methods are doing just well by you, thank you;
c) realize that their perspective is flawed, and perhaps through dialogue you can come to some understanding if one another;
d) realize that their perspective is flawed, and see this as cause to break into their space and set up an elaborate glitter trap.

A roughly drawn cartoon of an ogre labeled 'repression' being stuffed into a box clearly much too small for it by Anakin, while Obi-Wan stands in the background looking exasperated with his palm over his face.

d)

...hypothetically.

Once the exam is over, or if you have questions during!

Obi-Wan could not suppress a feeling of deja-vu that kept creeping up on him at the strangest times.

He had no idea where it was coming from.

One of us is going to see Star Wars today and the other one is EXTREMELY BITTER ABOUT LIVING IN GHANA.

Ugh.

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