Ethics, Friday, November 6, 2020

[sith_happened]

"Let's talk about shame," Anakin said, settling back against his desk. "For you, personally, what actions make you feel that gut-clench of knowing you've done something wrong? And more importantly, how does your society check inappropriate social behavior through use of shame, and what happens when someone refuses to feel shame?"

Anakin had not been watching election results and listening to his wife yell at her computer for almost a week, why would you think that?

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Re: Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

"I'm sure," Anakin said, smiling again. "Better to get taught by someone who knows how to use a sword than end up without a hand, right?"

Get used to amputation jokes, Nina.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[bookbeltof_love]

"I definitely don't want that," she said, making a face. "Though I like to think I know enough about weapons to avoid that sort of mistake!!!!!!!!!"

Re: Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Anakin tilted his head thoughtfully. "Depends on your opponent, too."

Re: Talk to Anakin

[bookbeltof_love]

"True," she admitted. "But if I was getting overpowered with a sword, then out would be coming my magic and my bookbelt????????"

Re: Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

"Bookbelt?" Anakin repeated, squinting. "I don't know that weapon."

Re: Talk to Anakin

[bookbeltof_love]

"I just got it sharpened at the smithery on my world," she said brightly, unlooping her bookbelt from her waist and setting it on the desk.

It... was a bunch of hardback romance novels tightly tied with a belt, Anakin.

But it had been sharpened! Nina's universe worked in strange and mysterious ways!

Re: Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Anakin blinked. "I don't understand this weapon."

Re: Talk to Anakin

[bookbeltof_love]

"I hit things with it," she explained. "And it hurts them!!!!!!!!!!!"

Did that help?

Re: Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Kinda?

"Huh," Anakin said. "Like an axe but books?"

Re: Talk to Anakin

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina considered her bookbelt.

"Less slashy, more bashy???????" she tried.

... Yes. Even though it had been sharpened.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

"So pretty much just like books," Anakin said. "Never tell Rory they can be made into a weapon. She'll rewrite history and tell me that's why she always had fifteen in her backpack in high school."

Re: Talk to Anakin

[bookbeltof_love]

"I can take a man's head off his shoulders with my bookbelt," Nina said slowly.

She didn't like admitting it, but if he was going to train her then he needed to know that she, ah, was a lot stronger than she looked.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Anakin looked impressed. "Sounds a little messy," he said.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[bookbeltof_love]

"If you do it with enough force, blood doesn't really get on the books," she said, with a bit of a shrug that was more careless than she felt.

Re: Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

Ew.

"The lightsaber cauterizes instantly," Anakin said.