[HPforGrownups] Re: Judging right & wrong in the Potterverse

[Alexandra Y. Kwan]

No: HPFGUIDX 25593

Hello,

Sigh, this is getting so wildly ot...

--- fourfuries at aol.com wrote:
> The only way to be sure that a proposed action is in
> fact good is for 
> there to be an objective measure of goodness by
> which to judge.

Oh, gods, not Platonic 'Ideas' again.  Sorry, I have
about up to here with Plato and his ideas.  Me, I'd
rather take Sartre.

> ultimately Good will prevail regardless of whether
> any particular 
> individual chooses to help out or not.  I mean,

Even if I'm accepting your view of absolute good and
evil (which I don't), I think you're forgetting the
fact that the battle between 'Good' and 'Evil' has
been going on ever since humans existed and will no
doubt go on for eternity.  In fact, it *has* to go on
for eternity for the world to be on balance.

You can't have the day without the night, heat without
cold, even...Democrats without Republicans <g>.

> really, how else 
> could a baby defeat the greatest sorceror of all
> time, except it be 
> fated, in the stars, pre-destined, or the will of
> that we call God?

Ah, coincidences happen all the time and the baby
actually didn't defeat this great sorceror, its
mother's love did.

little Alex

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