Double standards and believing

delwynmarch delwynmarch at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 2 21:24:24 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 121000


Lupinlore wrote:
(snip highly interesting explanation)
"In JKR's world, your actions are good or not according to an
objective  standard of who you're helping, your own personal beliefs
and intentions and morals seem to have very little, if anything, to do
with it.

Now that might not seem very fair.  But if one believes in Good and 
Evil as Platonic existants, as JKR seems to in the HP saga, it is 
perfectly logical."

Del replies:
Fascinating! I had never seen things like this. But it does explain
the Potterverse quite nicely. And it ties in very well with Renee's
explanation that in the Potterverse being loyal to DD seems to be the
main moral compass.

Now, such a view is quite abhorrent to me, but hey, I did ask for
someone to explain things to me, so I can't complain now that you did
it :-)

Del







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