Ethics, Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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"We've spent a lot of time this semester talking about lying and various ways of shading the truth," Anakin began, "and why such things might be necessary. Whether it's smoothing family dinners when your grandfather in law is being a bigoted Republican blowhard and you just pretend not to hear him or when you fake being a vegan to avoid having to eat something that had swum past you a minute earlier, lying, misstating, and obfuscating happens a lot, and at least in the cultures I'm familiar with that seems to be mostly acceptable."

He leaned back against his desk. "That's not the same for stealing or assault, though. You can't just take something, even if you need it more than the other person, or hit someone who is really asking for it."

He shrugged. "I don't have an answer for it, but why do you think words seem to matter less than possessions?"

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Re: Discuss!

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Nina's own special snowflakeness had been long worn off—because she'd brought an umbrella with her on her way to class—because the trip from doing radio had been…

……………

… an adventure.

"I would never hit someone who was really asking for it," Nina said, all wide-eyed earnest innocence.

She was also super lying but, like, ladies wouldn't admit to that in public.

"But, like, I think words matter less than the other things that way because, like, they're not physical???????????????????? Like, you calling someone a dirty name isn't going to break their jaw or take their wallet from them????????????????? It just maybe hurts their feelings?????????????"

Re: Discuss!

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Anakin nodded. "And hurt feelings aren't as bad as a physical blow?"