Good moral core (Re: Dirty Harry/Clean Harry)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 117162


Neri wrote :
> "If you accept that he has free will, you must be satisfied with
> "because after considering the options (or not) he decided that 
> option A was better than option B"."
  
Alla anwered :
> OK, let me try to rephrase my question again - how does Harry KNOW 
> which decisions are right? What helps him: higher power? generation
> memory? What?"
 
Del adds :
> Or, in my words :
> Option A was better than option B *according to what* ?? What scale
> was Harry using ? What determining principle was he applying ? He 
> was freely choosing, but what did he base his choices on ?

 
SSSusan:
Well, if I may, I'd humbly direct you to #117135, where I attempted 
to provide at least one possibility.

Does there have to be a determining principle or a scale?  I'm not 
so sure it's so systematic.  Don't some people just do good things 
because they've seen bad things and don't want to repeat them?  Or 
because they like how they feel inside when they've done them?  
Harry's been hurt; Harry's seen hatred, bullying, shallow people who 
care only for themselves in the Dursleys.  I'd think that experience 
could have taught him what he DIDN'T want to become.  And then add 
to those negative "role models" the POSITIVE reinforcement he got 
from things like being friendly with Ron, and I think it's fairly 
easy to understand why he makes "good" choices frequently.

Siriusly Snapey Susan