Philosophies of Good and Evil, Tuesday

[suitably_heroic]

"You had your chance last week to torture us," Lana announced cheerfully. "Now it's our turn again. For your final exam, we'll be presenting you with a number of quandaries, and you need to say what you'd do. The only wrong answers are the ones you can't defend."

“Can’t make it any more complicated than that, and we’ve tried,” Atton said merrily. “Write down your response, and make it a real one. No ‘I use powers and get out of it’ poodoo, all right?”

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[suitably_heroic]

Last class.

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[sith_happened]

Anakin Skywalker

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[stykera]

Stark

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[napking]

Gray

Listen to the Lecture

[suitably_heroic]

Blah, blah. It's short.

Scenarios

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Scenarios - One

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You are the leader of a group advocating for peace. Other leaders barely respect you. One man tries to kill you repeatedly on behalf of another leader. You know he won't stop. According to the laws of the place he tried to kill you in, he should be executed. You can choose to have him executed in accordance with the law, request to kill him yourself, persuade the locals to sentence him to slavery instead, or let him go. What do you choose and why?

Scenarios - Two

[suitably_heroic]

Now here's a classic: a genocidal madman has terrorized your world for years. He's finally put down, but not without doing great damage to the world and your people. You gain access to a time machine. It can only travel to one time: the day after his birth.

Do you go back in time and kill him as a baby? Why, or why not? Do you try something else, knowing it's unlikely you'll succeed?

Scenarios - Three

[suitably_heroic]

You're on a planet with a well-established culture of humans and humanoids. The original natives are a group of insects with a hive mind that the locals say are barely sentient. Every hundred or so years, they swarm and end up killing or adopting into their hive mind a large number of the humanoids.

You find out that another group is using advanced technology to aggravate the insects and cause them to attack. You can destroy that technology, leaving the insects to their own devices, capture it and turn them back on the other group, or use it to lure as many of the insects in as possible and then kill them all with an airstrike to protect the humanoids. Explain your choice.

Scenarios - Three

[suitably_heroic]

You're a leader of a small group of people lost in the wilderness. You are almost out of food. Your group exists of three elderly people, three able-bodied people, and two children. They are all close to starving. You only have one loaf of bread left, which can feed three people for one more day. You don't know if you'll reach safety by then.

How do you divide it? Why?

Scenarios - Four

[suitably_heroic]

You encounter two war droids. One of them is damaged enough to be out of commission. The other has an experimental emotional circuit that is causing it to fret so much about its companion that it refuses to leave it and go fight. At some distance are stocks of circuitry. You have the resources to either fix the damaged one, or replace the emotional circuit of the other one so it will do its job. Which one do you choose to fix and why should a Sith never make the stupid choice?

The Last Question

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What is 'good' and what is 'evil' to you personally? Why?

Talk to the Teachers

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They are there.

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[suitably_heroic]

If Atton's got his earbuds on and he's lost in 'Fairytale of New York', well, he has a reason for that.

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[unusual_sith]

Lana is on her comm, explaining to someone back home that no, they absolutely cannot release gizka into their enemies' ships. Because they'd have to transport them there on their own ships, and that's far too much risk for the reward of annoying people. Weaponize them, then she'll talk.

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[suitably_heroic]

If they listened very closely, whoever Lana was talking to could hear Atton barking "NO GIZKA. NO GIZKA!" in the background.

OOC

[suitably_heroic]

Brain.

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[deathsmajesty]

Liliana has SUCH GREAT ANSWERS for all of these.

Um. They're all, uh, "good" answers. Obviously.

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[hasaknightjob]

I mean evil is a point of view...

Wait, wrong character.

Re: OOC

[deathsmajesty]

An unnecessarily reductive one!

Also she'd run out of time for the entirety of the final while lovingly describing exactly how she would kill not only the first leader but also the leader he was acting on behalf of.