[HPforGrownups] What's wrong with being bad ?
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SnapesSlytherin at aol.com
Fri Jun 18 16:07:27 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 101909
Del:
>Snape seems to be one of those people. He grew up in the Dark Arts and
>seems to have adopted early on a "Dark Outlook" on life so to speak.
>He doesn't seem to like niceness and sweetness and light, and seems to
>prefer darkness and cruelty.
>
>And I'm wondering : what's wrong with that ? Isn't he entitled to
>choose as he wants ? It makes his and others' lifes harder, but so
>what ? Isn't it still his right as a human being to live as he chooses
>? If others disagree (and many do), it is their right to fight him and
>prevent him from hurting them. But if he likes darkness rather than
>light, and cruelty rather than niceness, what Higher Rule is he
>breaking, if he doesn't believe in a Higher Force ?
Oryomai:
What's wrong with being bad? Absolutely nothing. I don't believe in a Higher Force per se, so I don't think that anyone judges me but me. Human beings can be whatever they want. I believe the only thing a Higher Power does is limit us from being what we want and doing what we want to do. (Not to bash anyone's beliefs, I'm merely stating my own. If it comes across as a bash, I apologize!) Perhaps it's just the religious people I know in real life, but I've only ever seen religion come into play to stop someone from doing something they want to do.
What Severus does goes against the morals of the people around him, but apparently not against his. While we as readers and the Trio as students see it being "wrong" what he does, he doesn't seem to have a problem sleeping at night. (Unless that's why he was up walking around in GoF -- his cruelty to the students renders him unable to get a good night's rest! *g*) But at the same time we must realize that right and wrong are relative. "We both have truths, are mine the same as yours?" To Severus, there's nothing wrong with verbally assualting his students. To Harry, there's no problem sneaking around in an Invisibility Cloak while blatantly disregarding every single rule and every single thing anyone has told him to keep him safe (OoP, anyone?). Both believe that the other is in the wrong. In reality, no one is in the right or in the wrong.
Everyone has both good and evil inside of them; everyone is inherently bad and good. Everyone has to choose. Not everyone is capable of choosing to be good and innocent and nice. I know I can't. Everyone who disagrees with Severus can fight him, and he can fight back. There's no reason that everyone in the world should be good. If everyone was good, then the lower levels of good would have to become evil. Both good and evil must exist. There's a balance. Besides, there's no reason that Severus and LV and Draco should just wake up one day and decide to prance in the flowery meadows, dancing with forest creatures. Although that *is* a lovely mental picture when you think about it...
Oryomai
--Sometimes, it's good to be bad.
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