House Elves and justice, etc

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 129800

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Katherine Coble <k.coble at c...> 
wrote:
> 
> On May 31, 2005, at 1:02 PM, a_svirn wrote:
> 
> >
> >  As for honour or justice – it's simply mockery to apply these 
terms
> >  to slaves. Honour implies superiority both moral and social. 
Justice
> >  implies authority both in terms morality and in terms of power.
> >  Slaves are inferior (socially and according to
> >  convention "naturally") and subject to their masters' authority.
> >
> >  a_svirn
> >
> 
> K:
> 
> You're kidding, right?  Really....seriously.  You have to be 
kidding 
> here.
> My dictionary gives one definition of honor as:
> 	a 	Principled uprightness of character; personal 
integrity.
>

a_svirn:

Try another dictionary. If yours skip such obvious meanings of 
honour as `elevated position of rank', `quality of rightness and 
moral superiority' it can't be a very good one.