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fandomhigh2018-09-25 10:02 pm
jedigrammarians) wrote in fandomhigh2018-09-25 10:02 pm
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Practical Ethics, Tuesday, Period 3
Everyone ready to read today? Good. Anakin has handouts. "This is a famous story from this planet called The Lady or the Tiger," he began. "Hopefully Dr. Aphra read it over the week like I told her to."
She was capable of doing assigned reading, Anakin. "Yeah, yeah, psycho royalty feeds people to overgrown tookas."
"Maybe feeding people to overgrown tookas," Anakin said. "The ending is ambiguous, and that's what our discussion today will be about: what do you think the princess advised her lover--the door with the beautiful woman behind it, or the one with the tiger so he could get eaten? And which would you choose, if you were in the same position?"
"It's pretty obvious, you don't build a whole tooka deathtrap, then let the guy go." Aphra had opinions, apparently. "There's some truly psychotic levels of jealousy involved here."
"Well, you could," Anakin said. "Otherwise it would just be people-eating day. There has to be at least the appearance of getting to live."
"Yeah, 'the appearance', not the reality." Yes, Aphra was using finger-quotes. You had great teachers.
You were so lucky, it was true. "So. Do you think it's people-eating day, or did her lover get lucky?"
She was capable of doing assigned reading, Anakin. "Yeah, yeah, psycho royalty feeds people to overgrown tookas."
"Maybe feeding people to overgrown tookas," Anakin said. "The ending is ambiguous, and that's what our discussion today will be about: what do you think the princess advised her lover--the door with the beautiful woman behind it, or the one with the tiger so he could get eaten? And which would you choose, if you were in the same position?"
"It's pretty obvious, you don't build a whole tooka deathtrap, then let the guy go." Aphra had opinions, apparently. "There's some truly psychotic levels of jealousy involved here."
"Well, you could," Anakin said. "Otherwise it would just be people-eating day. There has to be at least the appearance of getting to live."
"Yeah, 'the appearance', not the reality." Yes, Aphra was using finger-quotes. You had great teachers.
You were so lucky, it was true. "So. Do you think it's people-eating day, or did her lover get lucky?"
Re: The Lady or the Tiger? - PE [25/9]
"If she was smart, he got the lady, because dad can be deposed and she'll grant him a divorce. But we don't know how smart she was, because the story doesn't tell us anything besides the writer thinking they're better than everyone else."
Re: The Lady or the Tiger? - PE [25/9]