New & horrid task/replies & suggestions

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

I've now read through about 165 of the 237 "Morality vs 
Immorality" posts. My initial reaction was somewhat 
exaggerated, but the posts in the category stretch far 
and wide. Morality is a subjective category because 
there is no consensus on whose morals we should use to 
judge incidents by. God's? The law's? The reader's?

Some posts deal with whether JKR is writing a Morality 
Tale, others debate how characters' actions fit with 
Christian Morals (some posts from the dreaded Abanes 
Thread are here), many are to do with breaking Hogwarts 
School rules, some with ethics regarding Dementors and 
Unforgiveables, some stretch well into the realm of Good 
vs Evil, a lot  question characters' actions in various 
scenes.

The most obvious problem is that the category 
`Following/Breaking Rules' wasn't invented until many 
posts had already been coded. A significant number of 
the early posts should probably be switched to this 
category. 

Otherwise, I have no idea how to clarify this category. 
>From my own observations, "Morality vs Immorality" is 
most often used  to add a greater meaning to other 
categories. By that I mean, the post could be coded 
without it, but using it makes the moral issues explicit. 

For instance, there are a small number of Dursley Abuse 
posts in the category. But, I would assume that most 
Dursley Abuse posts went without this extra category 
because it is assumed that the 
"Child Abuse/Mistreatment" category already had enough 
of a moral/immoral gist in it. Posts about the 
Unforgiveables don't always *need* this extra category, 
because the category `What is Dark Magic?' already seems 
to have a sense of Morality inbuilt into it. There are 
posts about Class and Prejudice and Justice and Religion, 
but I would also contend that these topics already have 
a degree of inbuilt "Morality vs Immorality" and don't 
always *need* the extra click. 

HOWEVER, adding this extra click strengthens these 
existing categories. It doesn't do any harm. (It just 
makes reading everything under this heading less helpful 
than you may have previously expected.) 

There are, naturally, some posts that fit perfectly in 
this category and would be refugees without it.

How many people would read an entire category like this, 
anyway? I think that my discomfort is something that very 
few catalogue users would ever experience. 

If we do decide to go back and review existing posts, I'd 
prefer to be on the team of people who just continued to 
code posts. I prefer believing that any mistakes or dodgy 
decisions I may make will be corrected by another person 
later on.

~<(Laurasia)>~

Whinge, whinge, whinge. The Poms are meant to be the 
bloody whingers, not the Aussies. But I've finished my batch, 
so all this moaning and complaining is compensated for.