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

[Susanna Luhtanen]

No: HPFGUIDX 27866



Susanna Luhtanen
s_luhtanen at hotmail.com



>
>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.

1) In an extreme situation there can be reasons to do what otherwise would 
not be permissible, for some things more extreme than others.
2) both motivation and consequences count.
3) A mental disease makes a deed (caused by the disease) neutral in moral 
judgment.

I've tried and tried to find an ethical/moral code to suit EVERY situation, 
but I don't believe there is one.

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