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feelings to attachment to humans make ethics fuzzy

posted by [personal profile] emef at 12:25pm on 08/07/2019
yesterday I was re-reading The Secret History. [spoilers forthcoming] There's this bit near the end about students wondering how their favourite professor would react to knowing they'd murdered someone, and all of a sudden I had this image of my violin students and I was wondering, how I would react if my students told me that they'd done something horrific? Would I go to the police? I was slightly surprised to find that my reaction was a feeble, I would need to think about it.
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posted by [personal profile] tei at 07:08pm on 08/07/2019
Damn. Maybe this is just because too much Hannibal this week has severely distorted my moral compass, but I thought about what I would do if one of my gymnastics kids told me they had murdered someone, and my immediate gut reaction was, what do they need? How can I protect them?
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posted by [personal profile] emef at 08:05pm on 08/07/2019
Right??? Caring about and feeling invested in someone's well-being does WILD things to personal ethics.
Edited Date: 2019-07-08 08:05 pm (UTC)
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