#Situational ethics

[burnwater13]

Grogu almost missed Cobb Vanth. He was a person, one of the few humans, other than Peli Motto, who had noticed Grogu’s relationship with the Mandalorian right away. Grogu almost missed him, because despite Cobb’s fancy words, he didn’t try to stop the bounty hunter from risking his life when they were helping the Tuskens and the Mos Pelgo town folk with the tiny little problem of a rampaging Krayt dragon. 

After all, how much of the work was the Mandalorian supposed to do? All of it? Sure the Tuskens and the town folk had come out in numbers to try to solve the problem they both experienced in the worst way, but the Marshal had just let Din walk right into the Krayt dragon’s lair without so much as a ‘Hey, what about the kid?’, passing his lips. 

Nope, he’d been much more concerned about the Mandalorian armor he’d purchased from the Jawas years before. The only way he was going to be able to keep it was if Din Djarin failed to help with the Krayt dragon and that just didn’t seem fair or right to Grogu. Mandalorian armor belonged to Mandalorians. Not Jawas. Never Jawas, really.

Grogu had seen the writing on the inside of the cuirass (don’t ask him how, Grogu knows how to keep a secret) and knew it said, in very fine print, ‘Property of Mandalore. If found, return immediately. Otherwise we’ll come and take it off you and you know what that means and it won’t be pleasant.’ Or words to that affect. 

Cobb Vanth bought the armor, put it on and immediately fell subject to the requirements written on it. He did the protect your clan part pretty well (normally on the inside of the vambrace) and the help people in need part really well (on the flight pack), but the returning it to the people who made it at such cost and with so much riding on it (someone’s whole family tree was written on the rest of the cuirass) was something the Marshal had failed at.

So while Cobb Vanth was busy fussing and fretting about how the whole thing was going to go down, Grogu had to sit there and listen to them talk about every plan for attacking the critter. None of those plans included just feeding it. None of them included a method for getting it to move out of the area. Nope. They were all about ending the critter. 

Grogu’s Jedi training told him that there had to be another way, but no one was paying attention to him. If they had, he would have suggested that they just work together to move the town. It wasn’t like Mos Pelgo was huge. It was a handful of buildings and very little in the way of infrastructure. Tatooine was mostly empty, so moving away from a Krayt dragon freeway and nest seemed like a good option to him. 

Or, they could have lured the Krayt out of it’s den and then destroyed the den, nest, whatever. The Krayt would have to find a new place to live. They could have even looked for a better place and set it up and then encouraged the critter to go there. Krayt dragons were native to Tatooine, which was pretty hard to believe, because it takes a critter forever to evolve and Tatooine had once been a very different planet, green and lush with oceans and everything. 

But Grogu supposed that anything was possible with the Force, so that may have been part of the problem that Tatooine had. Maybe some Force adept had been there and made changes that allowed the giant critters to survive in such a hostile environment. He supposed he could have done that as well. Used the Force to compel the critter to leave them all alone. His former masters would have frowned at that, but they weren’t there to scold him or help him solve the problem a different way. 

When Grogu complained to his protector, the Mandalorian had laughed and commented that he seemed to like eating the Krayt dragon meat, so maybe he wasn’t that concerned about it’s fate after all. Grogu had to admit, the critter was tasty and he was a sucker for a good meal. Huh. Maybe he shouldn’t have been day dreaming during the situational ethics course that Master Windu had delivered so many years before. It would probably come in handy while he and the Mandalorian were just trying to get him to safety. Maybe he could ask Cobb Vanth to give him a refresher course. He seemed to understand that topic pretty well for a marshal.

#calendar prompt a day #the mandalorian #grogu #din djarin #Cobb Vanth #situational ethics

[allycat75]

Hey, Ivan, is this what it looks like from the hole you keep digging?

I am sure you appreciate the green leaves, you dumb fuck!

#Getting worse by the day #People are starting to not like you just as much as you don't like you #It's a family affair #can you get a group rate on therapy because y'all need some serious help #Boundaries! #Lying and hypocrisy run in the family #i think you split your family apart #Situational ethics #Collateral damage be damned #Was it worth it?

[embodiedinscribed]

Me: Good morning Bugapie

My child: Good morning Mamapie

Me internally: Yep, right or wrong, I would've done the same thing Joel did.

Except my lie would've been: They took spinal fluid, brain scans, and tissue. They've moved to a more secure research facility where they will finish their research and hopefully mass produce a cure. For everyone's safety until then it's a top secret location no one knows, including us. Our part is done.

#good father #bad liar #tlou #tlou ep 8 #joel tlou #tlou hbo #pedro pascal #the last of us #situational ethics #ethics #medical ethics #parenting

[steviebee77]

Morally Blind

C.S. LEWIS SAID morality is concerned with three things: harmony between individuals; inner harmony of the individual; and the general purpose of life (ultimately, salvation). Morality, he said, is synonymous with absolute truth. Not surprisingly, universal moral law must come from a Lawgiver. Moreover, without absolutes morality is based merely on culture and circumstance. So-called situational…

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#Absolute Truth #Choice #Definition of Evil #Immorality #Moral Relativism #Morality #Morally Blind #Origin of Evil #Situational Ethics

[flaticeball]

hey! as the first season of connor bedard gets underway i, your local indigenous hockey fan, have a request of you: please don't let this kid's sure to be marvellous and jaw-dropping rookie season make you complacent with the racism of the blackhawks as an organization. it is beyond heinous that they were able to secure the first overall pick this year for a number of reasons i'm sure we're all familiar with, but i am pleading with the hockey community not to let the racism of this org fall through the cracks.

they drafted connor bedard and handed him a jersey with a giant racist caricature on the front. their mascot is named tommy hawk. they continuously fail to curtail their fans' egregious displays of anti-indigenous racism at games.

i'm not going to ask anyone not to post about bedard. i know he's huge news and i'm bummed as all hell that i won't be able to enjoy the beginning of what is sure to be an incredible career myself. but i am asking, given that his presence on the team is likely to increase the prevalence of people making and reblogging posts about the blackhawks, that you please care, loudly and actively, about the racism of this organization and how much it hurts indigenous fans to see that go unquestioned so often.

consider mentioning it in posts. consider amplifying the voices of indigenous fans and community members about the issues of these types of sports organizations. consider reading up on the history of the person they claim to 'honour' with their hideous effigy of a logo. consider censoring the logo in your posts if you are able to (please do this if you are able to). consider tagging posts so that indigenous fans are at the very least able to blacklist that team and not have to see it.

above all, please just. don't forget about it. don't forget about us. we belong here too.

#gav gab #connor bedard #chicago blackhawks #i jsut. it makes me feel sick every time i see that thing. #this racist caricature of a native man's head on their jerseys on their ice in their locker room #a native man who had his body mutilated in death including having his head removed #it's fucking grotesque and it makes me literally sick #i was really looking forward to see what that little wizard boy could do! #and now it is wholly ruined for me #and i keep seeing people just. posting about it like this team is normal. like it's any other team #no ethical consumption under sports is true but some things ARE worse than others #and there is no justification or excuse for being a blackhawks fan in the year 2023. there just isn't. #and like..... it bums me the fuck out for bedard himself too #like he didn't choose this #he just got like. put into this situation #it sucks #he's a teenager and now he's in the middle of this whole mess he didn't create and isn't responsible for #and i can't expect him to do anything about it #but boy was i excited to see him play #and now it just..... yeah #well.

[narwhalandchill]

while i wouldnt necessarily disagree that childe seems to be on edge more so than usual (and he himself mentions being in a poor mood in act I) in the fontaine archon quest i do have to say i find it a little funny that theres people who think hes behaving, like, completely out of character in the court scene when he decides to go apeshit after being judged guilty by the justice.exe AI bot like.

did it somehow escape peoples memories that this man when presented with the idea that we as the traveler mightve tricked and gotten ahead of him with the geo gnosis just. entered a state of complete murderous rage leading to him activating foul legacy in the golden house. which actually ends up self-sabotaging his current objective more than anything bc unlike the clear way they struggled against childe before now the traveler just won by default by outlasting him

he mightve gotten over it fairly easily afterwards (in no small part bc traveler actually fought him which automatically translates to equal=respect=friend in his fucked up head) but childes been shown to be a highly dangerous individual with a massive ego prone to outburst in the heat of the moment when outplayed or his pride wounded before even when it isnt the smartest course of action like. this isnt new lmao.

getting accused of a crime he had never even heard of in a foreign nation he only recently arrived in and then sitting through all that court drama and being assured afterwards that he only needs to partake as a mere formality for declaring his innocence only to be somehow declared guilty by a machine is very much realistic grounds for childes patience to reach its breaking point if you ask me lol

#and if its about the like... civilians in the opera watching thing id like to remind ppl #that childes never raised any ethical issue or personal guilt relating to the endangering of innocents #childe dislikes involving the weak bc its something he considers as BENEATH himself as a warrior whod rather solve every problem w a 1v1 #him going 'the weak of this world are so insignificant that no honorable fighter would pull them into matters beyond their ability' #isnt.... a moral stance jkwdjkdjkwjkdjkdkdw #so like no him choosing to activate foul legacy in front of a crowd doesnt necessarily ring ooc to me #just that hes decided its a means to an end situation where he cannot abide by his preferences #the same way he chose to revive osial despite his personal distaste for such methods because at the moment its what he had to fall back on #genshin #genshin spoilers / #rambles #childeposting #childe

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]

Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Dunmeshi #though it IS really worth exploring the ethics of cannibalism in survival situations #The podcast You're Wrong About has a really interesting pairing of episodes #in the Donner Party and Flight 571 Crash episodes #Both about disasters in which people wound up eating their dead to survive #and an interesting connection they drew was that it wasn't the cannibalism itself #that destroyed the lives of the Donner survivors #it was the horror and disgust and societal rejection they got for having eaten human flesh #even the children who had no idea what they were eating were treated with revulsion #and this is clearly the response Senshi feared facing if anybody knew what he'd eaten #But Flight 571 like a century later #the survivors were faced with a lot of understanding when rescued #relatively little condemnation and revulsion #by and large commentators acknowledged that they did what they had to do #and sympathized with how difficult and painful it must have been #which is what Senshi gets from his party #Laios wants to figure out the truth because he knows it's hurting Senshi not to know #But at one point Marcille straight up says that none of them would think less of Senshi if he did eat dwarf stew #Okay so this is Marcille 'ardent student of blood magic' Donato #but Chilchuck agrees #anyway I think that would be a particularly interesting conversation to have in a cooking manga #how do you safely eat a dead friend when that's all you have to survive on? #what are the nutritional benefits other than 'better than starving'? #what are the risks? There's prion diseases and all sorts you can get #they write it off as eating the dragon part but they DO spend seven days eating Falin at the end #ARE there any in/famous cannibalism cases in this world? #Do peopel argue about whether or not it's cannibalism if a dwarf eats a tallman? #enquiring minds (mine) want to know

[andypantsx3]

one thing that really gives me hope re: ai generated images & text is this wacom situation. whatever they saved on hiring a promotional artist is going to be lost to all the customers who drop them now and i hope that sends a message.

i hope in the future it becomes such a faux pas to use ai generated art that no organization feels comfortable doing so, and the companies who spent hundreds of millions of dollars training their plagiarism machines can't recoup any of it and go broke :3

#this is a gross oversimplication btw of how easy it to detect ai art (it will only become harder) and text (nearly impossible) #and understating the places it could be useful in helping artists IF ethically implemented (which i doubt it will be) #but regardless i love to see the wacom situation play out and i hope this trend continues

[julesdap]

thinking about how the rapture-and-bliss…… isn’t really hope. or maybe it is, but it’s hope corrupted, perverted. because it doesn’t give seb and dev hope, only fantasy. it’s escapism. that’s not what hope is, not the same hope that convinced hayward and paige to birth a god, not the same hope that makes carpenter work for a better world despite all her cynicism.

hope in its truest form is a driving, radicalizing force. what the man in the walls sells is the opposite. its victims literally live in a dream. it’s hope stripped of action. it’s forced optimism to the point of destructiveness. and it just drives home the point that no gods in this universe — the biggest metaphors for oppressive systems and capitalism and overconsumption — can take hold of anything good without corrupting it. because a god must feed.

#bitch. thats not a god of hope. thats the god of watching youtube videos all day because our realities are too big and scary and important #the silt verses #i think its interesting that some people took it at face value when the creature claimed to be a god of hope #and being upset that hope wasn’t enough to see seb & dev through it #but that’s the point!!!!! blind hope isn’t enough!!!! you have to put your feet on the ground!!! you have to Wake Up!!!!!!! #i think the cairn maiden along with the woundtree were also interesting examples of ‘neutral’ ‘harmless’ gods #but now we’re starting to see the maiden’s effect on carpenter (throwing herself into reckless situations etc) #and we already saw the woundtree’s effect on predator-prey systems & its weight on paige #literally no ethical consumption under capitalism and what a way to drive home that point………. #julestxt #tsv #tsv spoilers #okay. anyway

[weepingfishturtledragon]

Captain Marvel Adopts Superboy AU

TW: Angst and a little violence

Imagine an angst fanfiction where the Justice League is put into an impossible situation where Superboy has to die in order to save the whole universe. Everyone is arguing about the ethics and what they should do. Dad Captain Marvel™ is absolutely against sacrificing Superboy or anyone but Superman thinks it's a necessary evil to save everything in the universe!

Superman talking to the league: All of creation is about to be wiped from the world! Do you know how many lives wouldn't have happened, how many people wouldn't have lived!

Superman: Connor isn't more important than the whole universe! 

Captain Marvel furious turning Superman around and sucker punching him in the face:

HE IS TO ME!!!

#billy batson #shazam #dc comcis #captain marvel #dc captain marvel #superboy #kon el #connor kent #clark kent #superman #clark is very ooc #justice league #ethical dilemma #angry captain marvel #dad marvel #captain marvel adopts superboy au #imagine that he was able to either knock Superman out or draw some blood #what would you do in this situation? #my poor baby #billy is not ready to lose someone closer to him again #in the end I think they find another solution #please ignore any spelling or grammar mistakes #tw angst #tw little violence #Doctor Who quote

[imakemywings]

Aredhel: I hang out with men because there's less drama lol

Celegorm & Curufin: [take a blasphemous binding oath]

Celegorm & Curufin: [help their dad invent murder]

Celegorm & Curufin: [abandon everyone else now implicated in the murder event to march across the Arctic]

Aredhel: 😒

#aredhel #celegorm #curufin #the silmarillion #tolkien tag #mine #galadriel: no please tell me again how there's less drama with men #aredhel: it feels ethical to stuff snow down her shirt in this situation

[hotchfiles]

btw i’m gonna be real with y’all here and post the same thing that i just sent the chat.

what you read and write is your business. if your parents don’t care, don’t mind, don’t control your media consumption, that’s their business.

what’s MY business is keeping MY ASS out of a court of law for child endangerment for showing them written porn.

what’s MY business is making sure i won’t have any parents in my ear. so did you read my nsfw stuff as a minor? don’t tell me. don’t reblog it. don’t like. don’t make it easy to find it.

are you posting nsfw stuff as a minor? make it clear in each post so I WON’T HAVE THAT ON MY BLOG.

that’s literally all i care about. i do not care about what you do. i care about any situation you might put ME in.

#posting this because i know a lot of people have a more moral and ethical opinion and way of thinking and dealing with this #i really dont im really pragmatic and selfish about it #just leave my ass out of situations

[scattergoriesofevil]

Sam Riegel, Episode 87: I can ritual cast! I could have been doing this THE WHOLE TIME.

I would like to see more people play wizards on this show. Someone sitting down for C4 with a spell book and nothing left to lose.

#critical role spoilers #critical role #cr spoilers #MOAR WIZARDS #MOAR MAGIC NERDS #more weirdos for Allura to mentor #I don’t like the dark lonely scenarios for Essek in exile #I think Allura sends him off on errands and gives him books to read about ethics #he reports back about some bad situation he had to go investigate and resolve #and she also makes him report back on his reading over tea #Kima scares him shitless but he secretly adores how she is an open book #field work is dirty and dangerous but he grows a lot #I think Allura has many colleagues but few peers #GIVE ALLURA MORE WEIRDO ARCANISTS #she needs to retire knowing the pipeline is strong

[faejilly]

i think the fandom doesn’t capitalize on the fact that Alec is a older brother, that man probably has so much more black mail on Izzy and Jace then they do on him

#mood

Izzy and Jace have nothing they can use on Alec.

One: They didn't think they'd ever need to because they thought they knew what he'd do in most situations (say no and then begrudgingly help them anyway, and tbf to them, they're mostly not wrong pre-Magnus)

Two: He is so aggressively self-contained for survival reasons that the only 'secrets' either of them has on him are the facts that he's gay and he and his mother have a fucked up relationship and THOSE ARE NOT THINGS YOU CAN USE FOR 'friendly family blackmail'.

Three: Alec is a tactician, he is observant, he is ruthless. He knows everything Izzy and Jace have ever done and the fact that he (as far as we know) never uses any of it is amazing and a little heart-breaking because he could have manipulated and threatened the fuck out of them and made his own life so much easier and he never ever did.

#jilly answers #forever-nox #lightwood family feels #alec lightwood #my sh rambling #sh meta #JOIN ME IN MY ETERNAL #*dying whale noises* #re: Alec Lightwood's improbable and compelling combination of talents a cptsd #deep self-assessment #well-trained comprehensive observational skills #including the VERY RARE ability to constantly re-assess with every new thing he observes/learns #paired with completely inflexible ethics #absolute faith in his own skills #vs complete and utter lack of a sense of VALUE IN ANY OF THEM #endless compassion #for everyone except himself #and anyone being an idiot #ability to comprehensively assess a complex situation in .1 seconds #and then fling himself into the most batshit 'solution' with 110% conviction #while everyone is still going #'what?' #I love him he is so fucked up y'all #shadowhunters

[bluejayblueskies]

there’s really something about stories that delve into what it means to be human, huh. stories where people cling closer and closer to their humanity even as their bodies slip further from it. stories where monsters slowly learn what it is to be human and grow to cherish it above all else. stories that explore what humanity means when surrounded by so many things that make it hard to be human. stories that show kindness and compassion in the face of adversity and horror but also the often terrible things one must do to survive and how neither of these things negates the other. stories that show us that the connections we have with others are valued, even when they’re fraught, and that we can still be deserving of love despite it all. 

there’s just really something about stories that tell us that humanity is messy, is a choice, is not absolute, is kindness and hard choices and survival and connection and love and a thousand other imperfect things, and that it is important and obtainable no matter who or what you are

#malevolent tma etc.: come closer i am a normal horror podcast #i am not going to make you ponder the human condition and how morality and ethics interact with horrible and stressful situations

[grapecherry]

babe wake up the narratives are foiling

#drdt #drdt spoilers #danganronpa despair time #danganronpa despair time spoilers #I AM SO SO NORMAL ABOUT THE UNHEALTHY SEPARATION TERUKO DAVID AND AREI SHARE WHEN IT COMES TO BEING GOOD OR BAD PEOPLE. #THIS IDEA THAT ITS SOMETHING ENGRAINED IN YOU. THAT YOUR ETHIC AND MORALITY HAS PERMANENCE. #BECAUSE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF CHANGE MEANS TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU’VE DONE. #TODD CHAVEZ VOICE. YOU ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE WRONG WITH YOU. #AREI FELT LIKE WHO SHE HAD BECOME WAS PREDETERMINED BY HER CIRCUMSTANCE HENCE HER UTTER BREAKDOWN WHEN SHE THINKS ABOUT EDEN’S LIFE #SHE YEARNED FOR THE *OPTION* TO BE KIND #BUT THAT’S SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE OVER AND OVER #JUST AS EDEN STATED TO TERUKO. SHE *CHOOSES* TO BE KIND. #SHE’S NOT NAIVE. SHE’S KNOWS THE STAKES OF THEIR SITUATION. BUT SHE CHOOSES TO LOVE ANYWAY. #SORRY I. I DON’T KNOW WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THIS SHHDJDJDJ #JUST HAVE LOTS OF FEELINGS Y’KNOW #teruko tawaki #david chiem #cyrus.post #parallels #images