Different moral standards

[freda]

No: HPFGUIDX 93074

>
>Del again:
>>  The way the Dursleys treat Harry revolts me too, but I acknowledge
>>  that they simply represent another morality, more "natural",
>>  less "humane". I read somewhere that when a new lion takes over a
>>  lion group, the first thing it does is kill all the offsprings of
>>  the old leader, and the mothers let it do it, because that's the
>  > natural order of things. Tough, but normal.



The Dursley's have had one child, and unless someone knows otherwise, 
they have not had other children so that they can devote all of their 
resources, love , money etc to the one child. Being very middle-class 
they want to give him all the advantages they can. When Harry 
arrives, no financial support is given by the Wizard World, and they 
see him as taking away from their plan. It would make them angry that 
their sacrifice of having only one child has been spoiled by Lilly 
and James being killed and landing them with the orphan Harry.

It is very much "survival of the fittest" making sure that your own 
progeny has the best chance of succeeding, in the lion case, that 
means killing the other cubs, in the Durlsey's case, it means giving 
as little of the resources to him as possible.


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Freda
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