Please explain.

eggplant107 eggplant107 at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 7 17:04:59 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 144279

"susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> wrote:

> No one, even someone without "good 
> moral qualities" deserves to be
> treated badly. 

I disagree, I think some people very much deserve to be treated badly,
but Harry is not one of it.

> Murder is not worse if the 
> person was greatly beloved. 

That is of course the conventional politically correct opinion to
hold, but I don't believe it for one second. And if push ever came to
shove I don't believe ANYONE would feel that way. If someone you loved
was murdered I believe you would feel worse than if somebody you hated
was murdered. It's even true of fiction, I felt bad when Dumbledore
was murdered, if Snape had been murdered I would have felt much less
badly. 

>That's the cirucularity of your argument. 

There has been a lot of talk about circular arguments, but you might
want to Goggle the term to get an idea what it means.

> This is not a comic book where the villains
> and good guys are all easily recognizable

My general rule of thumb in both fiction and real life is that murders
tend to be villains. 

Eggplant 










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