Marietta and Hermione (and Percy) (and C.S. Lewis) and Tonks and Molly, oh my

eggplant9998 eggplant9998 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 3 16:21:42 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 121046


Barb Roberts <miamibarb at B...> wrote:


> remember learning that ethics (Christian
> world view) is best addressed from three
> different angles. The first angle is the law 

In a perfect world ethics and the law would be identical,  but in 
reality this never happens and sometimes the two are not even 
similar.

> The second angle a person's motives 

As I said before I think motives are irrelevant,
or nearly so.

> The third, I believe, angle is the end
> results arising from the choices 

This is the only really important one of the three because 
maximizing for this one is the path to a better world, and that's 
what's important.

> we clearly see that Harry's father was spoiled. 

That is not clear at all, even kids who were not spoiled can do bad 
things. Harry's father had character flaws but we don't know the 
cause of those flaws. Spoiled kids tend to be a bit wimpy and 
although James had his faults being weak was not one of them. 

Eggplant 










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