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Post by Lokk on Mar 1, 2007 13:56:24 GMT -5
"Very true, that is one of the important parts of this that I was looking for. Treat others as you would wish to be treated." he said and scribbled it and the 10 commandments up on the board. "Anything else?"
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Post by John on Mar 1, 2007 16:48:10 GMT -5
John smiled gratefully over at Athalia. Her answer appeared to be what Mr. Barker was looking for...which meant he was off the hook. John wasn't about to make another suggestion and attract attention again. He thought 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you' summed it up fairly well anyway.
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Post by Lokk on Mar 3, 2007 23:23:26 GMT -5
"No? Ok then. So then we move on to the difficult ones. What happens if you have this enemy, he has the power to say, I dunno, disintergrate things by concentrating on them. No substance yet known to man can withstand his power and he uses it completely for evil. You have him pinned down and could kill him. What do you do?"
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Post by John on Mar 4, 2007 2:19:51 GMT -5
John shrugged. He was afraid this was a trick question, but the answer seemed obvious. "Knock him out?" he suggested. An unconcious villain couldn't hurt anyone.
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Post by Lokk on Mar 6, 2007 22:09:34 GMT -5
"And then What? He wakes up and escapes and starts doing exactly what he was doing before. I realise that it is a difficult question, and there isn't really a wrong answer, what does everyone else think of this problem?"
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Post by John on Mar 6, 2007 22:31:52 GMT -5
Who said anything about letting him wake up...or escape? John thought to himself, Banishment on a deserted island seemed a fitting fate for such a man. But John thought he had said enough for this class and Mr. Barker had asked for everyone else's opinions anyway.
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Post by Headmistress Exypen/Athalia on Mar 7, 2007 15:06:35 GMT -5
"Well... no. Maybe... no," Athalia said, starting on an idea and then discarding it as she reminded herself it wouldn't work. "Maybe if you knocked him out long enough to put him into a medically induced coma. Or you could fix it up so that like where ever he was imprisoned he couldn't use his power to disintegrate an escape because then it would kill him. Like a space station in space where he lives or a chamber so far underwater he would be unable to escape because he would drown."
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Post by Lokk on Mar 8, 2007 23:37:08 GMT -5
"But then, you may as well have killed him anyway. He'll never get to see anyone ever again, he'll never get to leave, or he'll kill himself. Now, personally I think John was right. As a hero, what you do is, you get rid of the threat and let the authorities deal with him, let the diplomats decide what to do with him. So you just keep him knocked out until the cops get there, and then you leave. The only exeption to this is with bad guys you don't think you will ever be able to defeat or catch again, then you have to make a decision based on what you believe. Any questions?"
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Post by John on Mar 12, 2007 18:12:41 GMT -5
In the scenario Mr. Barker had described, he didn't see a problem with Athelia's solution. Someone liked that should kill themselves or be totally isolated from society. But that wasn't really John's call to make. That's why they had court systems. But John just shrugged. Mr. Barker had said he was right so he didn't really have any questions about it.
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Post by Lokk on Mar 15, 2007 13:58:40 GMT -5
"Ok well, now we need to talk about secret identities. What can anyone tell me about them?"
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Post by Headmistress Exypen/Athalia on Mar 16, 2007 18:47:05 GMT -5
Athalia was a little bit miffed that her thoery had been shot down, she hadn't meant that she herself should build his containment facility, but that the government could if they didn't want to kill him. She wasn't going to kill him that was certain but she could help contain him. She sniffed quietly in a way to show her pride was hurt. The girl had a lot of pride for someone who wasn't snobby. She thought for a second about Mr. Barker's newest question before she answered. "A secret identity protects a hero from being mobbed by friends while picking up groceries or getting anyone around them hurt. They seem like a good idea to me, even if they do strain relationships."
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Post by John on Mar 16, 2007 21:22:28 GMT -5
John glanced over at Athelia when he heard her sniff. He could tell she was slightly offended, but at least she wasn't going to throw a fit or make a big issue of it. He nodded in agreement to her statement about secret identities. "It's like witness protection. You have to hide your identity to avoid retaliation."
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Post by Lokk on Mar 17, 2007 22:50:35 GMT -5
He scrawled these ideas up on the board and asked, "How about the hero, what can you tell me about what he feels about the secret identity and what he feels about the need for one."
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Post by John on Mar 21, 2007 1:25:47 GMT -5
John scratched his head. He'd never put a whole lot of thought into secret identities or heroes before, though his mom often went undercover. "It helps him do his job better at times." he recalled. "They will pay less attention to a civilain then a hero. Sometimes not being noticed is critical."
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Post by Lokk on Mar 22, 2007 4:31:44 GMT -5
"True, anything else?" Mr.Barker looked over at Pyros, "Pyros, what do you think the hero feels about his secret identity?"
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