[HPforGrownups] Marrietta's betrayal (was Depression ... in OotP - Cho/Ma...

[Batchevra at aol.com]

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In a message dated 8/21/04 6:54:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
delwynmarch at yahoo.com writes:
>I understand the feeling, but I have to disagree with the statement.
Anarchy lurks around the corner when we start choosing which laws
we're going to obey.

Moreover, putting any morality over the law is terribly dangerous.
After all, isn't it exactly what LV and the DEs are doing ? Their
morality isn't ours, but if we claim the right to put our morality
over the law, then we automatically grant them the same right.
Dangerous, very dangerous.

Del<

I am going to play devil's advocate here. If there is a law that promotes a 
lawful killing of a group of people and in that law includes killing people who 
are hiding some of that group of people then would you obey that law? 
remember it is anarchy if you choose to disobey that law. 

There are times when disobeying rules or laws are correct in that the laws 
are used in a harmful way. The DA was teaching the practical side of DADA, 
Umbridge was making sure that none of the students were competent in that. The 
students needed to know how to do the DADA spells in order to pass their OWLS and 
defend themselves. Also, in passing the OWLS would determine what jobs they 
were getting after Hogwarts, definitely important. 

Batchevra


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