ethics, ethics, ethics

Today in AP Lit, we did skits. Even though I'm not an actress, I enjoyed the skits because they were philosophical-about ethics really. Skits were centered around these themes:

1) for whom do you hold a higher respect: family or law?
2) would you experiment with genetically modifying your child for more "desirable" traits if you had the opportunity?
3) If you were forced into an arranged marriage, but you fell in love with someone else, what would you do? What would you tell your parents?
4) What would you do if your grandmother knit you an ugly pink sweater with bunnies on it and expected you to wear it during graduation...(and you detest this sweater)?
5) You, your sister, and her fiance are in a love triangle...(too much drama here, I think)

On a more teenage-stage, these reminded me of these situations:

-movie-hopping. Some of my friends don't see the problem with this. A friend of mine once said "Well how much more does it cost the theatre for one more person to sit in the theatre?"
As if that can justify it...
Well think of how much money an industry could lose if everyone did that..and yes, actors get paid more than their share, but it's the same idea of cheating I think. So the question becomes who gets ripped off? Consumer or producer?

Same idea for limewire.

Discussions in J4 make English an actually interesting subject.