Why didn't Lily have to die?

[tipgardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 93479

"justcarol67" wrote:
> > Carol:
> > <<<What *I* don't understand is how he could have thought that
>>*any* mother would stand aside and let him kill her baby.>>>

Tip comments:
I don't think he allows himself the capacity to understand such a love
and despises what he does know of it.  I think he feels that
self-interest and self-preservation are the two highest human instincts.

> Carol:
> Yes, I'm very much aware that LV can't comprehend either love or
> emotion in general and I'm familiar with the quotes you cited and
> their implications. As I said in the part of my post that you
>snipped: "Maybe all those years as a bodiless spirit possessing
>snakes and rats robbed him of any knowledge of human psychology.

Tip points out:
Except that the years of of bodiless spirit followed after Lily's
sacrifice as a direct result of his work that night.  So he would not
have lost human psychology if he knew it before that night, until
after he killed Lily.

Tip

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