Ethics, Friday, October 30, 2020

[sith_happened]

"Hello again, everyone," Anakin said, trying not to knock any of the jack o'lanterns over with the sweep of his cloak as he walked around the classroom. "I hope you enjoyed your time dumping me into very, very cold water."

He knew they had.

"Today we will not linger on the overwhelming guilt you no doubt feel over that--" he continued airily, "--so we'll move onto an ethics question instead. Since Halloween is tomorrow, we'll talk about stealing. Halloween, for those of you new to this dimension, is a day where people dress up in various costumes and then go door to door demanding candy."

It was clear by Anakin's expression that he had absolutely no idea why this was a thing.

"Sometimes people set out unsupervised bowls of candy, or tell you to help yourself to what they are holding out. My question to you is: do you feel obligated to only take a few and leave some for the people who will come behind you, or will you take it all?"

He could guess which way Eleanor was going to go.

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[sith_happened]

Ready to get free candy!

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[mother_forker]

Eleanor Shellstrop

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[toottootmagicflute]

Wei Wuxian

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[gospel_of_oblivion]

Illyana Rasputin

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell Ingram

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[grayskollar]

Adora

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina Argentum

Discuss!

[sith_happened]

Are you an entire-candy bowl dumping monster? Or do you share so that Anakin's small kids aren't crying? Hmmm?

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[mother_forker]

"First of all you're wrong," Eleanor said, holding up her hand. "Halloween is about wearing skimpy outfits and not remembering what happened the next day."

Or at least that's Eleanor's version of Halloween.

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[toottootmagicflute]

"More skimpy?" the man in full-length robes asked, looking at her outfit. Then he realized how that might sound. "Ahaha, I'm not saying your clothes are indecent!" She knew where he slept, after all.

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[mother_forker]

"Well yeah! Especially if you got the goods!"

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[sith_happened]

"I never wear skimpy outfits," Anakin said.

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[mother_forker]

"And on behalf of the student body, we thank you."

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[toottootmagicflute]

"Who is coming behind me?" Wei Wuxian asked. "Are they wealthy? Are they poor? And in this scenario, when have I last eaten?"

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[sith_happened]

"You won't know who comes behind you and you probably were too excited to eat anything substantial," he said, thinking of his own children.

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[gospel_of_oblivion]

"Wait, what, that's a real holiday? It's not just a made-up tv thing?"

Look, 'Yana lived in the Village with Doctor Strange. People wandering around in costumes were normal everyday events. And she didn't really remember anything like that from her miniscule childhood in Russia or at Xavier's.

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[sith_happened]

"It's a real holiday," Anakin said. "I just don't understand it."

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[mylandmyrules]

"We'uns don't celebrate a heathen thing like that," Nell said.

Beyond the obvious issues with demons and evil spirits and such, dressing up certainly wouldn't be encouraged, and going to strangers' houses to ask for candy... Heavens no.

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[sith_happened]

"It's heathen?" Anakin replied, slightly confused.

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[mylandmyrules]

"With all the demons and ghosts and the dead...?" she shook her head. "Definitely not something God's Church if Glory would support."

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[grayskollar]

"Are the people behind me already there, or just hypothetical?"

Look, it wasn't that Adora would take candy from a baby, but it would have to be a real baby she wasn't taking it from.

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[sith_happened]

"They're already there," Anakin said. "One's dressed as an adorable pumpkin, if that changes anything for you."

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[grayskollar]

Well that was one way to derail Adora from her 'would probably only take one extra handful instead of two' answer. "Why would you put a kid in a gourd?"

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[bookbeltof_love]

"You share," Nina said witheringly, like it was the most obvious thing on the planet.

She was deeply disappointed in her classmates.

Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

He will not give you candy.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Someday my ability to brain will return, right?