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

[mcdee1980]

No: HPFGUIDX 120852



 
> Carol:
> I don't know about either of you, but I'm bothered by the word
> "innate," which suggests that their goodness is inborn--a concept 
very
> much at odds with the idea of choice. If they're innately good, they
> can make mistakes (and they do), but they can't become evil. In
> contrast, Tom Riddle, who unquestionably is or becomes evil, cannot 
be
> innately good. Is he evil by his own choice, a choice denied the
> "innately good" Trio, or is he innately evil, in which case his
> choices were preordained and not choices at all? If *some* people 
are
> innately good, why wouldn't *all* people be? Surely good and evil 
are
> meaningful concepts only if those who choose them do so knowingly 
and
>willingly?                                                           
 Lady McBeth:     The concept of innate goodness and innate evil is 
almost impossible to tackle.  I don't think there is a right answer 
here.  Its the same as trying to prove the existence of good using 
Aquinas's model of all goodness.  Aquinas states that if there is 
good in the world there must be an example of something that is all 
good (or innately good)and all powerful, however, if you follow that 
proof if there is evil there must be something that is all evil and 
all powerful.  It is impossible for there to be two all powerful 
beings in the world at the same time . . . and here we are back at 
the prophecy!  If LV represents that which is all evil and Harry 
Represents that which is all good they cannot exist together.  One 
must be false and the other must triumh over 
iit.                                                                  
  Lady McBeth, Please excuse my lack of formatting, my keyboard is 
ccurrently without an enter key and i can't fix it.