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fandomhigh2024-09-10 09:26 pm
snipsnspecks) wrote in fandomhigh2024-09-10 09:26 pm
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Ethics, Tuesday, First Period
Class was meeting in the Danger Shop today, where there was no sign of Anakin, but there were piles of pet costumes and a number of simulated cats who looked remarkably similar to Anakitty.
"Following on from last week, one important aspect of developing your sense of ethics, is that developing one takes work," Ahsoka said after greeting the class. "You have to learn to understand yourself and your faults, and that you will have stumbles and failure. There are few things as dangerous as someone who believes they can never be in the wrong. Or that they could never act in an unethical manner.
"The truth is that there are very few people who cannot rationalise a certain amount of flexibility with regards to living up to their own ethical standards. For example, many ethical systems agree that harming another is wrong, but what constitutes harm? Is it physical damage, emotional trauma, bruised dignity?
"Say you do believe the last is an unethical form of harm. So if you were in a position where you could bruise someone's dignity, perhaps by dressing them in the most embarrassing costume you could find while they were turned into a cat," To pick a completely random example. "Of course you wouldn't do it.
"But what if this person had previously caused you a similar embarrassment? Would that make it more or less ethical? What if it wasn't actually them but a stand in? What if someone was planning on taking holos to show this person later?" She paused significantly. "These are all pressing ethical questions, that I trust you will give serious consideration during this lesson."
"Following on from last week, one important aspect of developing your sense of ethics, is that developing one takes work," Ahsoka said after greeting the class. "You have to learn to understand yourself and your faults, and that you will have stumbles and failure. There are few things as dangerous as someone who believes they can never be in the wrong. Or that they could never act in an unethical manner.
"The truth is that there are very few people who cannot rationalise a certain amount of flexibility with regards to living up to their own ethical standards. For example, many ethical systems agree that harming another is wrong, but what constitutes harm? Is it physical damage, emotional trauma, bruised dignity?
"Say you do believe the last is an unethical form of harm. So if you were in a position where you could bruise someone's dignity, perhaps by dressing them in the most embarrassing costume you could find while they were turned into a cat," To pick a completely random example. "Of course you wouldn't do it.
"But what if this person had previously caused you a similar embarrassment? Would that make it more or less ethical? What if it wasn't actually them but a stand in? What if someone was planning on taking holos to show this person later?" She paused significantly. "These are all pressing ethical questions, that I trust you will give serious consideration during this lesson."
Re: Listen to Ahsoka - Ethics [02]
So yeah, less ethics, more self-preservation.