Marietta and Hermione (was JKR's Messages ) (was Re: Hermione In Trouble?)

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"delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

> How do you know whether an organisation 
> is good or bad when you don't
> have all the info about it? 

You use a thing called "Human Judgment"; there is no
guarantee you'll get it right of course, but it's 
all we have so you do the best you can. Even today
we don't have ALL the information on the Nazis,
but even so I am ready to commit myself ; OK here 
goes, I think the Nazis were evil.
I hope I'm not being too controversial here. 

> I'm curious to know how a self-proclaimed 
> unethical person like you defines a good 
> organisation vs an evil one?

I don't think definitions are very important in everyday
life unless you're dealing in mathematics or formal logic,
examples are far far more important, but if pressed I 
suppose I'd say a good organization is one that does 
mostly good and a evil organization is one that 
does mostly evil. It works for me anyway.   

> Hermione *made* them sign the parchment

My copy of the book must be defective; I'm going to ask for
my money back, it doesn't include the scene where Hermione 
puts a gun to their head.  

> did Hermione's hex prevent Marrietta
> from ratting on the DA?

Obviously not, but it did minimize the negative effects that ratting 
would have.

> Morality exists for its own sake, not for any other point. 

I could not disagree more!! I start from the position that causing 
people pain, physical or emotional, is bad and then I build my 
morality on top of that. To glibly say that doing X is good because 
doing X is good and ignore the fact that doing X puts thousands of 
people in agony is just plain crazy. That's what I meant when
I said if that what morality is then I don't need it or want it.  
But I don't think that's what morality is. Morality is the
greatest 
invention of all time and its purpose is to minimize pain, if it 
doesn't do that then it has no use. 

Eggplant