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MEME: Truth Serum
I had a rough weekend and a quiet Tuesday so let's do a meme.
Your character has ingested a large quantity of truth potion. Any questions asked of them, they have to answer truthfully, whether they want to or not! There's absolutely no way around it.
Your character has ingested a large quantity of truth potion. Any questions asked of them, they have to answer truthfully, whether they want to or not! There's absolutely no way around it.
Re: Liliana Vess
Honestly, what I'm teaching is consequences. I may not know (or, honestly, care) about ethics in the least, but I know consequences. I know consequences very, very well. What I want people to take out of this class and any other that I might teach in that same vein is a better understanding of themselves and what they might do when faced with a situation where there is no good way out, along with the ability to think about consequences beyond the most immediate of whatever they do. So many people think that because they have chosen the moral or ethical thing, nothing bad will happen. *laughs* That's just patently false. Save that one child in acute distress, you cause hundreds of children to die elsewhere. Tell this truth, and oops! It starts a war.
I genuinely don't care what options the people in my class pick. What I care about is interrogating the reasoning behind that choice, and trying to bring to light blind spots in their thinking so they can keep those blind spots in mind for the future, or work to eliminate them altogether. I want people to be able to get past the idea that the choice they feel is the most moral doesn't make it actually correct in every circumstance. And, at least for some of them, introduce them to scenarios where they cannot win. And it's not because they're not good enough or didn't try hard enough but simply because it is a situation where there is no happy ending. Where all you can do is try to survive with the consequences of whatever choice you did make.
I will admit to some hypocrisy in getting people to accept and take ownership of said consequences, but I've never shied away from being a hypocrite.