“Studying ethics is a waste of time because it’s all just a matter of personal opinion.”
“Studying ethics is a waste of time because I’m a Business/Law major… ethics is for losers!”
“I don’t need to study ethics (or worse, shouldn’t study ethics) because my holy book and/or religious leaders answer all moral questions for me.”
“This teacher is going to try to brainwash me into becoming an atheist, pagan, communist, socialist or some combination thereof, thereby condemning me to social embarrassment, familial ostracization, religious excommunication and/or eternal damnation.”
“This teacher is going to try to indoctrinate me into accepting their male, white, female, black, straight, gay, gendered, non-gendered, American, European, Hispanic, non-indigenous etc. perspective, thereby dishonoring my own identified culture.”
“This teacher is distractingly attractive (Gavin Enck, I’m looking at you!).”
Others? Retorts from students? Click that comment button… You know you wanna…