Moral Simplicity - a New Perspective.

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 121330


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
> 

> 
> I think niceness is an underrated virtue, to be honest.  I'm 
talking 
> about the genuine article, without the connotations of fakeness 
that 
> it so often carries.  I would rather formulate it this way: to 
treat 
> people in a way that is not nice is not a trivial thing, but rather 
> a statement of how you regard that person and their right to 
> subjectivity.  It is not generally possible to be a *good* person 
> without treating people well.
> 
> So you can be someone who is not a good person, but still does some 
> good things.
> 

I definitely agree, Nora.  I always have trouble when people try to 
go into the nice/good distinction.  I definitely agree that, if one 
is talking about genuine goodness and genuine niceness, it truly is 
impossible to separate them.  That is why I follow your line in not 
calling Snape good, but rather person deeply infected with evil who 
nevertheless manages to do some good things.


Lupinlore