Ethics, Wednesday, September 4, 2019 [1st period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin swept into the classroom precisely on time, making sure the door slammed shut behind him thanks to a little nudge from the Force.

Hopefully everyone was already awake and not hungover because that noise was loud.

"I am Anakin Skywalker," he said, Jedi robes swirling overdramatically Snape-like around his ankles, "and this is Ethics class." His eyes roamed the room. "It's nice to see some familiar faces because this is a class that is always relevant. Ethics--your personal moral principles--can evolve over time, and something you find unthinkable one year might become routine in another. The point of this class is to examine where your own personal line is before you are faced with a dilemma in the real world, panic, and make a wrong choice."

Like, say, turn to the Dark Side and kill a whole lot of people. For decades. Theoretically.

"Traditionally, the first week of classes is devoted to introductions," Anakin concluded. "So today I want your name and the second worst decision you've made. The one that makes you wince internally when you are trying to go to sleep at night and your brain is playing the greatest hits of the stupd things you've done."

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Re: Introduce yourself!

[following_my_fishie]

Delirium thought about it. The quicksilver minnows in her blue eye swam a little faster while she did. Eventually she shook her head slowly. "No? Because regret, that's when you're sorry for something you did and you're sorry so bad that you'd go back and change it if you could but I can't do things like that. Because I could, you know. It's not even hard because every me that ever was is every me that is right now too. It'd mess everything up if I did things I regretted. Everything I've ever done is everything I was ever supposed to do. I can't go changing that. Boy, would my big brother get angry! But I don't. Because it's what was supposed to happen. Sometimes things I do make me sad and I don't like them very much but they're still things I gotta do because if I don't, someone else would have to do them and that someone might not be as good at it as I am."

"Um."

"But everything in my life is everything in a really long time. And it isn't over yet and it won't ever be until there's no more people and no more stars in the sky, so maybe someday I will do something I regret. Not so far, though. Not even the bad things."