smash_logs | POLITICAL SCIENCE: WE ARE ONE

Who: Eggman, students
What: Eggman ~~tries to get out of the dog house~~ talks about discrimination and caste systems.
Where: Eggman's classroom
When: Wednesday, Dec. 15
Warnings: DEPENDS on who shows up

Well, after the last couple of days, this was the LAST thing he cared about doing. The school was in an uproar, not that he'd usually care about such things, but now Flurrie was mad at him. That, he DID care about. So she was upset about his comments regarding the animals at the school, huh? About how they didn't count as people? Well, he'd show her. A hastily rewritten lecture plan later, and here he was, talking to his students when they arrived.

"Good afternoon," he began tersely. "Today we're going to talk about CASTE SYSTEMS. Since olden times, humans have always discriminated against one another for a variety of different reasons. Skin color, wealth, heritage, sex, pretty much everything you can think of, people discriminate against each other using it. As a species, we are hard-wired to seek out groups, and perceive anyone who doesn't belong to those groups as being frightening."

At this point, he reached into his coat pocket and began to read from some cue cards he had written earlier. "This does not mean that it is right or good. Discrimination for any reason is wrong and anyone who does it should be ashamed--" Flip to next card, "--of themselves."

The cards went back into his pocket. "Now, CASTE SYSTEMS are a form of ORGANIZED DISCRIMINATION. Traditional caste systems of old were based on the concept that people should stick to what they do best, though often those living under such systems were often TOLD simply what they did best. Simply put, a caste is a social strata that determined what you could do for a job, where you could live, who you could marry, and who you could interact with. Movement between castes was forbidden. Nowadays, caste systems are far less frequent, given to the rise of participatory democracy and free market capitalism in much of the world, rendering such legitimized discrimination obsolete."

Out came the cue cards again. "Isn't it wonderful that now we are all equal, every one of us, to do whatever we want and be friends with whoever we--" Flip cards. "--want? You should all appreciate the world you live in and remember that it takes many different--" Flip. "--types of people to make a world."

He tossed the cards aside. "I can't believe I wrote that... Anyway, today's discussion topic is simple: Which is better, a democracy or a caste-based system, and why?"

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A very special guest was seated in the back, glaring daggers at her hubby-to-be.

He's doing it all for you, dear. And it's killing him inside.

Don't worry, they'll be giving Sonic and his pals a good reason to reach for the brain bleach before you know it.

You're the best, dear.

Gee, Eggman sure seemed like he was dialing it in this week.

"OH please." Knuckles muttered, twirling a pencil around in his glove. "It would sound a lot nicer coming from anyone but you."

"Can't I at least get credit for trying?"

"No! Because you're only doing it because a certain someone heard about what you said!" Knuckles stated, still twirling his pencil. "You believe all that stuff you just said about as much as you believe the sky is green."

"What was that? Oh! Thank you! I did do my best!" Yeah, he was just ignoring what you said.

"Hahaha. Hippies."

Parakarry gave a half-hearted nod of the head followed by a flat "Uh huh," at the end of Eggman's speech.

"Seems kinda like a no-brainer to me. I mean, what happens when somebody decides who should do what? Say if somebody with brown hair had to assign everybody else to a job. Of COURSE they're going to make sure people with brown hair get all the cushy office jobs! It would never be fair to everybody else!"

"How interesting, to hear those words coming from a PRINCESS..."

"Hey, I didn't MAKE the rules. But I WILL be in a position to change them someday!"

"You would change your own laws to give you LESS power?"

"Nobody asked me if I wanted to run a whole country!"

"How INTERESTING!"

"Democracy. I don't think there's anyone in the world stupid enough nowadays to think a caste system is a good idea."

"Very well, now WHY is that?"

"Because people should be free to do what they like so long as they're not hurting anyone else. You should be able to talk to anyone you want to so long as you're not... y'know. Doing it to harm them. I have friends who are royalty and I was born in the wild. You don't get more different than that. And we still get along just great."

The answer was simple!

"Dictatorship where I'm in charge. Don't worry, I discriminate equally."

"Now WHY would that be best?"

"Democracy's inefficient. So much time's wasted with all that voting and arguing and crap like that. If I just tell them what do to, it gets done immediately. Or they suffer the consequences."

"I would pick democracy, obviously. Other than the people in charge, who would want to live in a society where they're told what to do and could be denied rights and privileges based on a class system?"

"What about ORGANIZATION? Is a democracy more or less efficient than a caste system?"

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