[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore's master plan

[Lawrence Carlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 138397

--- whizbang <whizbang121 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lawrence
> Carlin <nawyecka at y...>
> wrote:
>  
> > Remember, it is our choices that makes us who we
> are.
> > And if we choose to act as the Dark Lord, we will
> > become as the Dark Lord. A choice Dumbledore would
> > never make, and a path he would never follow.
> > 
> > Larry 
> 
> 
> I would argue that our choices reveal who we really
> are.  They don't
> make us, they show us.  This is the  biblical
> concept of "You will
> know them by their fruits."  So Dumbledore's or
> anyone else's,
> character is not shaped by his choices.  Rather, his
> choices are
> dictated by his character.



Larry now:

Would you have one's basic nature, or character as
deterministic? Do you suggest that a person with a
powerful predilection for addiction is incapable of
overcoming that addiction? That a person of the most
reprehensible character cannot literally "see the
Light" and choose to repent? You mention the bible,
what does the bible say of the penitent? If choice
cannot be made to overcome character, there would not
exist a single penitent.

Larry

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