Seeking: Is it meant to be a good thing?

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:

> Melody originally said:
> > So I ask, is this inconsistent?  Is the problem supposed to be the
> > act of seeking on Voldemort's and Crouch Sr.'s behalf, or is it 
> > that they went *too* far in their seeking?  
> > Melody

> Then Eloise responded:
>
> ..edited...
> 
> My own feeling is that it's not so much the seeking in itself which
> is the problem as that which is sought. In other words it ties in 
> with the theme of Choices.
> 
> ...big edit...
> 
> ~Eloise

bboy_mn adds:

I'm inclinded to agree with Eloise. I think you (Melody) might be
putting too much emphasis on the action and not enough on the objective. 

The objective is Power without Conscience; power with no concept of
good and evil. Power with no concern for harm, or damage. Power that
seeks only more power, and to hell with anything or anyone that stands
in the way.

Many of us are too 'weak' to seek power in this way; too weak to seek
power by destroying everyone and everything that gets in our path.
Except, most of us who do have a conscience would see that as strength
not weakeness; strength of character, moral fiber, a life tempered by
a sense of right and wrong.

To say there is no good and evil only power, is the statement of a
selfish, self-centered, psychotic megalomaniac, and to believe that
anyone who doesn't seek absolute god-like power is weak, only
re-enforces the diagnosis of a psychotic sociopath.

It is not THAT you seek, but WHAT you seek that determines the kind of
person you are.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn