Thursday - Moral Relativism

[straydog733.livejournal.com]

My name is straydog733, and I hope you have had a good week with me as your host. For my final day, I want to throw out something weighty: Moral Relativism. How do you determine what is right and what is wrong? Are those answers the same no matter the setting or circumstance? Does your morality have to shift to keep up with your changing world? This is the day to talk about it!

Please just remember:

• Only three prompts for the same fandom & only five prompts in a row (though if one of your prompts is filled, you can prompt again).
• No spoilers in your prompts for at least a week after the airdate/release.
• Warn for any spoilers for your fic in bold and leave at least three spaces before the text.
• Take the monkeys into consideration when writing your prompt. If the prompt is too long, it becomes very hard to record it properly in the archive. Fics are also meant to be comment sized! If you get very inspired, that's ok, but long detailed prompts deserve long detailed stories, and that's not what we're about. Thank you!

Also, remember to keep prompts in the correct format. For example:
Animorphs, any, the battlefield can’t seep into the classroom and the hallways are not the places to fight the war
Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko and Iroh, how can the world make sense when princes turn into common thieves?
Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang, just how many of the monk’s principles can he give up to maintain a disguise on the road?

And of course, if you don’t care for any of the prompts you see today, go on over to the Lonely Prompts and see if anything catches your eye.

tag=moralrelativism

Comments

[straydog733.livejournal.com]

Animorphs, any, the battlefield can't seep into the classroom and the hallways are not the places to fight the war

[straydog733.livejournal.com]

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko and Iroh, how can the world make sense when princes turn into common thieves?

[straydog733.livejournal.com]

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang, just how many of the monk’s principles can he give up to maintain a disguise on the road?

[chiana606.livejournal.com]

Little Women ; Any ; It's not right to dismiss your sins by comparing yourself to others who have done worse

[chiana606.livejournal.com]

Tanz der Vampire ; Alfred ; He's not particularly evil... as far as vampires go, at least.

Got a bit too long for comment-length again...

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

http://spiegelsaal.livejournal.com/5515.html

[chiana606.livejournal.com]

Little Women ; Jo/any ; Jo has no trouble writing about thieves and murderers, but the one time she writes an intense love scene it leaves her feeling unaccountably guilty.

[tigriswolf]

Inception/Angels in the Outfield, Al&Arthur, when he told Roger they expected great things from him, this isn't quite what he meant

[tigriswolf]

Sherlock (BBC)/Inception, Mycroft&Saito, they meet once a month to discuss world domination over tea

Tea and Sweetmeats (1/1)

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, the Conan-Doyle family own Sherlock Holmes, the BBC owns this version of Mycroft and Inception and all related characters and companies belong to Christopher Nolan. No offense is intended to the one real person mentioned in this fic. I'm sure Richard Branson won't mind.

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Once a month, economics and world events allowing, they meet for tea. They use a little table at the back of the Stranger's Room in the Diogenes Club.

Mycroft states that he does it as part of his role in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. Saito is a major employer in the UK. When one of his departmental staff asked why he didn't meet with the head of Kobol as regularly, he put them off with a few words about how many more jobs Saito's company controls than Kobol. He makes sure the woman in question is given a pay rise at the next available opportunity. He approves of observation and diligence in his staff.

The truth is more complicated.

Saito's company is huge, that is the truth, but so are lots of others. Saito himself, however, is a most remarkable man. Mycroft has found most businessmen to be singularly one-track-minded, originally about their business, and then later about whatever their main interest is - see Branson and his endless ballooning.

Saito, on the other hand, is frequently interested in things because he is interested in them. The thing may not have any immediate application for his company (although, given the size and breadth of it, Mycroft finds it hard to believe there is anything that can't be used by Saito's company), but he is willing to fund it anyway.

This is not to say that Saito is a dilettante, he is most remarkably clear-headed. It shows itself in his conversation and his success.

Also, unlike every other businessman Mycroft has ever met, Saito is a man of taste. He brings his own tea, and is kind enough to share it with Mycroft. He also brings sweet delicacies from wherever he's most recently been. For all that Mycroft is watching his figure; it's a delicious treat that he is grateful for.

If these meetings were ever investigated, Mycroft knows that this couldn't be called lobbying. Sherlock calls it corruption by chocolate, but then again, he always has been small-minded. Yes, Saito occasionally, and very subtly, hints that his company could do with some help here and there, normally with British bureaucracy, and Mycroft does help, when it's in the public interest.

In return, Mycroft gets better data for the department, Saito's own analysts being better resourced than any government agency.

And then, when their business is done, he is able to talk with someone with a brilliant mind, about any topic. That is Saito's greatest gift to him. It's so rare to come across someone else with such wide-ranging knowledge.

Yes, and then they talk.

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[tigriswolf]

Star Trek reboot, Spock/Jim/Bones, the Enterprise makes first contact with a society that places high value on human tears

[tigriswolf]

Supernatural, John&Dean/Sam or Dean&Sam or any of the angels,



He's what you made of him: plausible, lewd
Or tough, he's your flesh--was a pure child once.

[tigriswolf]

Highlander, Methos, the world he was born to and the world he inhabits now

[badgerling.livejournal.com]

Stargate SG-1, Jack/Daniel, it's never torture when you're the one doing it.

Nothing Else Matters (a drabble)

[sid]

All Daniel can do is watch. A few years back, he would’ve protested, would’ve still been protesting. He would’ve been trying to make Jack stop and think about what he was doing.

Today he knows that Jack knows exactly what he’s doing, and he knows exactly how much Jack hates it. He knows that Jack will come to him for absolution later, and that Jack knows he’s already absolved. He knows that Jack would do this horrible thing for him or for Teal’c.

Daniel knows he’d do it himself for Sam.

They have to find her. This man will talk.

[somehowunbroken]

Hawaii Five-0, Danny(/Steve), how far is Danny willing to let Steve push the limits of the law?

[somehowunbroken]

Hawaii Five-0, Danny/Steve. Danny's always trying to get Steve to follow procedure; Steve knows Danny has it in him to be even worse than Steve is. What flips the switch?

[ahavaelwilhouse.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Dean/Sam, the morality of incest

[tremble-beloved.livejournal.com]

New here so I hope I'm doing this right...

They know it's wrong. Know that if any one except a few select hunters know about them, they'll be in more trouble than they already are. But they're all each other has, the last of the Wichesters and they're in love.

And as Dean brings Sam over the edge, his little brother gasping his name as he comes in Dean's hand, Dean realizes he doesn't care what other people think.

If Heaven can turn a blind eye to them, how wrong can it be?

[ahavaelwilhouse.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Dean/Cas, Sam/Gabe, they each deal with the morality of sleeping with angels.

[clwilson2006.livejournal.com]

SGA, Lorne/Parrish, (Pre-DADT Repeal) It's against the rules.

[clwilson2006.livejournal.com]

Sanctuary, Nikola Tesla, Everything is acceptable under the label of science.

[ahavaelwilhouse.livejournal.com]

House, MD, Wilson/House/Cuddy&Rachel, (A+ if you include Diagnostics team and snide Taub), Lisa deals with the morality of loving two men and the consequences to her child

[lmx-v3point3.livejournal.com]

Leverage, Nate + Team, They don't realise what he's shaping them into. He's not sure what they would do if they worked it out

[lmx-v3point3.livejournal.com]

Leverage, Nate + Eliot, Asking him to pull the trigger

[lmx-v3point3.livejournal.com]

Fringe, Olivia + Walter, She's long since lost track of where the line is. She realises that when she realises she's not even fazed by Walter's videos any more

(please warn for spoilers, I'm only one and a half seasons in)

[lmx-v3point3.livejournal.com]

Any, Any, "I was only following orders"

Torchwood Jack/John

[fluffmonkey.livejournal.com]

This kind of got away from me-not at all where I was intending to go. Hope you enjoy anyway.

It was easily a century after Jack had left Earth again that the memories came. It had been so long that those lost two years had almost seemed like they didn't matter anymore, but that didn't stop the shakes from kicking in when he remembered.
All the terrible things he'd done came flooding back to him in that surge of memory. It was all he could do to get back to the room he'd rented without arousing suspicion or concern. He could see, fresh as the day it happened, all the faces of the dead and the dying, all of the people he'd hurt, killed, left to die.
John stood by through it all, patiently holding him and kissing him as the moment required, letting him get out his rage and misery. The whole time he wondered if perhaps this was a step too far, if giving him this bit of his life back was better for Jack, or just what he needed to do to get another chance with the man he loved.
The ambiguity ended when Jack came back to himself. Perhaps it was only right that he lose Jack forever. It was his fault the memories were gone in the first place, even if he had only been following orders.

[lmx-v3point3.livejournal.com]

Leverage, Sophie/Eliot(/Nate), When it started, she was using the verbal control to help him. Now, though...

[an-ardent-rain.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, 11, destruction in his wake

[fluffmonkey.livejournal.com]

Sure, he'd always told himself that all of the chaos and destruction was in spite of him. After all, when you deliberately travel the universe looking for problems to fix, wrongs to right, you're guaranteed to see your share of pain and death. This wasn't a storybook-not everyone survived. He knew that, which was why the few times that he COULD save everyone were all the better.
But then, on days like today, he had to realize the truth of the situation-the truth he'd never admit to anyone. Not Amy and Rory, not Donna or Martha or Jack, not Susan or Sarah Jane or Romana, not even Rose.
A great deal of the death and destruction was BECAUSE of him. The year that never was? Would never have happened if he hadn't taken Martha to the end of the universe. The recent destruction of reality would never have happened if he'd never stolen the TARDIS so many years ago. Perhaps his enemies had been right to imprison him in the Pandorica. He was dangerous. How much of this destruction could he discount in the name of lives saved? In the end, he was the one responsible for the damage. Gallifrey was gone because of him. Twice. So how much of this was for the greater good, and how much of it was desperate justification to keep himself going?
What other choice did he have? It wasn't like he could just leave the world to burn. No, all that he could do was cling to his questionable judgement and hope it was the right one.