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fandomhigh2020-09-18 10:28 am
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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 gavelinks 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?"
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
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"Well, if you're drinking to suppress the guilt from the fallout of the pride, it might need another conversation," Anakin said, "but I'm not sure that falls, strictly speaking, into gluttony." He chewed on his lower lip as he thought about addressing the heart of the matter. "Looking back, do you see a place where someone might've intervened to stop your prideful fall?"
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His fallout had ended that question in a big fat no.
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