Practical Ethics, Tuesday, October 16, 2018

[sith_happened]

"If you didn't want a creepy goat statue, you shouldn't have told me to steal one!"

"I didn't mean a gold one!" Anakin retorted. "Or even one at all!" Welcome to class, kids, with this week's argument already in progress.

And if anyone wanted to know just how creepy, Aphra had helpfully brought it to class as well, where it lay on the desk, its eyes following you around the room. "Well, I wasn't getting you a real one, I don't know anything about your livestock handling skills."

"That was the part that was holding you back?!"

Aphra primly crossed her arms. "I wasn't going to take care your goat for you. Pet ownership is an important responsibility. "

Anakin rolled his eyes. Hard. "Today's class will be about appropriate gift giving," he decided.

Aphra was feeling so attacked right now. "And accepting gifts graciously."

Comments

Sign in 10/16

[sith_happened]

Like an ungracious gift receiver.

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

Prince Sidon

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine Wren

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[midichlorianfail]

Theron Shan

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell Ingram

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[reicicled]

Bobby Drake

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[misshapen_spark]

Yang Xiao Long

Listen to the lecture!

[sith_happened]

Yes, the creepy goat's eyes follow you everywhere.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon was...trying to avoid paying attention to the strange golden goat, yes, and trying to focus instead on how this class's topic actually was very relative to his interests and concerns recently. Though, if he was honest, he might have slight doubts about how helpful the resulting conversation may be...

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine was trying not to pay attention to the goat.

She was failing and she hated it.

Re: Listen to the lecture!

[misshapen_spark]

Yang was just going to cover her face with her hands, so she didn't have to look at that goat.

IT WAS CREEPY.

Discuss!

[sith_happened]

As we enter the gift giving-and-receiving season, what standards do you use for determining gifts for friends/relatives/random coworkers?

Is everything paid for with your own money, Aphra? Not alive, maybe?

Re: Discuss!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

After he thought about this a little, in a way that he couldn't help frame in his own thoughts and eventual intentions, Sidon started to feel glad that he hadn't yet gotten around to speaking with Summer about the special order he had in mind. Was he wrong to think that perhaps a gift might be a good idea? He would hate for it to turn into...whatever was going on between the teachers at the moment.

Though he supposed, it wasn't like this bickering was anything unusual. For them.

"Pardon me," he ventured, "but I must admit, I am a little bit confused. Why is it that you find this gift so....objectionable, Master Skywalker? Just so that I'm clear..."

Re: Discuss!

[jedigrammarians]

"Because apparently when someone says 'steal a goat' they don't actually mean it."

Very helpful, Aphra.

Re: Discuss!

[mylandmyrules]

"I just make 'em all," Nell said. "Plants or baked goods or lotions or teas or somethin'."

Talk to Anakin or Aphra

[sith_happened]

Who are still arguing about the damn goat.

Re: Talk to Anakin or Aphra

[jedigrammarians]

The damn goat who Anakin could be a little more grateful for, since he's the one who brought it up in the first place.

Aphra, no.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Yay, Tuesday.