fandomhigh | Ethics, Friday, September 18, 2020

"Last week sparked some very interesting conversations," Anakin said as he paced around the room. "Let's keep that going. Christianity, one of this planet's major religions, takes a group of behaviors or habits that lead to other immoralities and call them, slightly overdramtically, the 'Seven Deadly Sins.' The seven sins are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth."

He smiled a little ruefully. "I know I've fallen victim to...most of them...over the course of my life, the emotions that can overwhelm you and lead to some monumentally stupid life choices."

And Anakin Skywalker knew from monumentally stupid life choices.

"There are some instincts that call to us more strongly than others, though: a favorite vice, if you would. There's a saying here that is as probably as old as this list of deadly sins: 'pride goes before a fall'. In my world, we put it slightly differently: 'Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.'"

He passed out a sheet of paper that gave ~~links to that wiki article up there~~ summaries of the deadly sins. "Now, which of these is your go-to? Where do you gravitate when you are angry or stressed? Do you think these behaviors are even all that negative? Can they be channeled into a positive direction?"

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"Favourite implies that I like the vice," Nina mused, frowning a little. "I mean, like, I would say my main vices are probably wrath, pride, and envy????????"

Which was a fun, fun combination!

"But I mostly use those to drive myself forward, rather than raining doom down upon other people........."

Anakin gave her a bright smile. "Hello there."

Those were three of Anakin's trouble spots, too! How weird, right? "The mostly is worrying me," he teased gently. "How much doom have you rained down?"

"Hey," she said, with a smile that almost hid the fact that she was still a bit pale from her previous class. There was no hiding the fact that, emotionally, she was all tangled up.

But she was genuinely glad to see Bus Dean. He just... kind of felt like a dad? It was nice, even if she couldn't keep him.

"Telling how much doom I've left in my wake would ruin the mystery!!!!" she protested.

"Give me a range, then," Anakin said, still smiling. "From made someone cry to blew up a planet."

Nina was grateful for the distraction. It was an interesting topic.

"I mean, like, I could probably legit figure out a way to destroy a planet," she mused, and she should probably not be given a planet to try that on. "It would be really hard to do that accidentally or on the spur of the moment though........"

Which was probably good?

"I'm, like, really more localized destruction," she settled on. "From making people cry to... like, about a battalion size......????????"

Which was still a thousand people, Nina.

"Crying kid to death of a thousand," Anakin agreed. "Where do you land?"

"I land on all of that?" she said. "Just at different times?"

"Where do land most frequently?" Anakin asked, kind of hoping for the crying end.

"On a personal level, probably closer to tears," she admitted. "Or shouting or re-arranging inventory in my brother's save files so he can't find anything."

She was a chaotic form of revenge, usually.

"Professionally it's usually more 'and then you're doomed'."

"Well, professionally gets more complicated," Anakin said. "Should you have separate standards for personal and professional?"

"I mean, like, I think a lot of jobs kind of require you to have two sets of standards," she ventured. "Maybe not in ethics, but it's not uncommon......"

Anakin nodded. "How to you justify that sort of dual life in your mind?"

Nina shrugged a little.

"They're both me," she explained. "Neither one of them is a lie so it's more like, just remembering a different set of rules for different occasions. Like the difference between a formal party and a casual barbeque??????????"

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