Please explain.

[eggplant107]

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"sistermagpie" <belviso at a...> wrote:

> But Snape thinks Harry is one of them. 

Yes, Snape thinks Harry deserves to be treated badly and Snape has
made a mistake. People need to take responsibility for their mistakes.
And I'm sure Snape does not see himself as a villain, but he's wrong
about that too.

> Of course you would feel worse, but
> that's got nothing to do with
> the law or ethics. 

This is fiction so I don't care about "the law of ethics". We're
talking about how emotions are actually generated, not how they should
come about in some ideal world. We're talking about a work of fiction
and how we feel about one character who treats another character
badly; if that second character is a SOB we will feel one way, and if
he is a wonderful human being that we have grown to love even though
he is fictional we will feel a very different way. And like it or not
that's a fact.

> Compassion is not something that someone earns. 

And compassion is not something you can intellectually decide you 
have or not do not have, it is something you ether feel or you don't,
and I feel none for Snape. 


Eggplant