Evil or Irritating (was Re: Idle musings on Book Six)

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No: HPFGUIDX 27860

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Susanna Luhtanen" <s_luhtanen at h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> >Now, I'm the last person that should be talking about "good" and
> >"evil", because quite frankly I don't believe such a distinction 
truly
> >exists.
> 
> I agree with that - no absolutes.
> 


Beloved friend, if there are no absolutes, what makes Harry's actions 
right, and Voldemort's actions wrong?  Under what circumstances are 
genocide, infanticide, child molestation, or use of the Unforgivable 
Curses okay?  If reason can be given for these things, then how are 
we to base our justice system?  Does Jack the Ripper get excused 
because he was (probably) a doctor, and therefore educated enough to 
decide that prostitutes aren't worth living?  Or would the abuses he 
(possibly) suffered at the hands of a promiscuous mother be a 
sufficient justification?  How about he was trying to single handedly 
eliminate syphilis?

If there are no absolutes, then not only is anything possible to man, 
but anything is permissable. 

4FR (amazed that there is still a question about whether some things 
are absolutely wrong).