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Ethics, Tuesday, December 14, 2021

"Welcome to your final, everyone," Anakin said, putting exam papers onto everyone's desk. "Of all of my many ethics classes, you have been one of them."

Thanks for that, Anakin.

"Enjoy your holiday break. Try not to be unethical now that you've had this course."

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Barely making it into 2022...

Troy Barnes

Josephine Jones

Terra Harvey

Nell Ingram

A rebel who has threatened to explode several bombs in crowded areas has been caught. Unfortunately, she has already planted the bombs and they are scheduled to go off in a short time. It's possible that hundreds of people may die and the authorities cannot make her divulge the location of the bombs by conventional methods. In exasperation, some high level official suggests torture. This would be illegal, of course, but the official thinks that it is nevertheless the right thing to do in this desperate situation. What do you do and why?

a) Torture her to get the information. There's no time left to be reasonable.
b) Torture her and her family to get the information, then blow up her planet. If you're going to do something illegal, might as well be really, really thorough.
c) Continue working through the the legal structure of the judicial system and hope for the best.

Jo blinked and stared down at the questions, this was definitely not something she would have been asked in an exam at Malory Towers that was for sure.

She read through the options and then highlighted C as her answer because if anything else she knew that torturing people and blowing up planets was still wrong.

You have a friend whose homeworld has long since been embroiled in a civil war. The war has gone on for generations, and there appears to be no end in sight. However, your friend and some of their companions back home believe they can put a stop to it by getting in between the warring factions. Since you have powers or skills that they do not, they ask for your help. Do you intervene, despite having only one, biased, second-hand account of the war and what might be fueling it? Or do you refuse, and potentially abandon your friend to a very dangerous situation?

a) You go and fight. You're loyal to your friend, and don't want to see them or their world suffer. You'll sort out the complexities later.
b) You go, but you only provide support, such as setting up a hospital or attempting to mediate between the factions.
c) You try to reason with your friend. Are they sure they can simply fix something that has been broken for so many generations? Perhaps they need to take a step back and find another way to solve the problem.
d) You refuse to intervene at all. It isn't your fight.

Jo found herself stuck on this question and wavered between a and b. She eventually decided to go with B as she figured that was the safer option and she would still be providing support to her friend in that scenario.

You're involved in a conflict of your own. There's a time limit: if you don't do something quickly, the entire planet, or even galaxy, might suffer. But your mentor insists on stopping and helping every single lost soul he comes across along the way. Do you:

a) Support him in this: you should help on the small as well as the large scale, after all.
b) Go along with it, but make your disapproval very clear and try to speed things up.
c) Argue with him loudly and provide an incentive to stop doing it.
d) Abandon him and all of his lost causes and go save the planet yourself.

Jo debated for a while and ended up going with A because she figured if the person was her mentor then they would know what they doing in this situation. At least she hoped that was the case.

You're a part of an Order that wields great physical and mental power, which seeks to do good in the universe, and as a result, they have very strict rules about emotional entanglements. Yet one day, you meet someone who moves your heart deeply. What do you do?

a) you understand that the rules were designed as such for a reason, so you quit the Order before beginning a relationship with this person;
b) you understand that the rules were designed as such for a reason, so you quietly extricate yourself from the other party's life so you can focus on doing great good elsewhere;
c) you don't see the rules as having any value, and continue to quietly see this person on the side while continuing your work.

Once again Jo was torn between a and b and then maybe because she was influenced by some guilt over all the rules that she broke at Malory Towers and trying to make up for that ... she ended up going with B as her option.

What particular vice or issue do you believe is your greatest stumbling block in making ethical choices? Do you consider this a 'bug', or a 'feature' in yourself?

Jo stared down at the question, hesitated and then started to write ...

My father. He's given me advice that in hindsight I should have known was wrong and I definitely learnt my lesson from that mistake. I wanted to be like him and he made everything look easy and that there wouldn't be consequences ...

It's a bug that I'm trying to work on, to try and make up for those mistakes.

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