right & wrong (Draco and grammar was originally discussed)

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> >Draco is that person that we would all like to be if there were no 
> >EternalGod/BhuddhaNature/AbsoluteTruth/Ultimate Justice to 
> >fear.  Rich, privileged, influential, popular, witty, probably 
> >attractive enough, and certainly used to getting his way.  In a 
> >word, he is powerful, and he raises the >ultimate question of 
> >human morality (as does Voldemort, >Dumbledore, Lucius, 
> >and to a lesser extent, Fudge):

To this, I must take offense, as a moral atheist. I believe, that people, without any of those above things, can be kind, merely because, it is a logical thing to do. (If your kind to people, people will be kind to you.) Also, doing mean and violent acts is not comfortable to do if you feel a sort of "mutual feelings," or, empathy.

I must say though, he is definitally what people would want to be if they didn't have morals, that's for sure. Basically, the primal "id" as it has been descibed. He merely wishes to serve himself. And logically, he only considers other people as a source of "stuff."

Of course, Harry is quite a different person. Although it is obvious that for most of his life, being kind would have been an awful waste of time for him. But he apparently was kind, for the sole reason of empathy. Especially due to his, well, "sucky" youth, he understands what its like for life to suck.

Sorry if I was OT, but I was just offended by the (sadly popular) claim, that people will only be good, if they fear being punished. Some people are good just because they are plain nice.