Academic dishonesty

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 139641

"delwynmarch" <delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

> Absolutely not true in most judicial 
> systems, thankfully. Very petty crimes
> are being tried every day

Ok I concede the point, trivial lawsuits are indeed very common and
are clogging up the judicial system as a result. So far we don't have
full criminal jury trials for littering or overtime parking or overdue
library books but that may be coming.

> First, cheating isn't a crime. Second,
> just because there are many many things
> that are more wrong than cheating, 
> doesn't mean that cheating can't be
> considered wrong anymore.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on that. I don't think Harry
committed a crime, I don't think he cheated, I don't think he was
shady in any way whatsoever, but I know you feel somewhat differently.
But from the above it seems there is one thing we can agree on, it's
that compared to the other momentous events happening to Harry and the
wizard world, Harry's use of that book just isn't very important from
a moral viewpoint be it right or wrong.

> Third, considering the stance of moral
> relativism that you are taking 

Is that the stance I'm taking? I thought my stance was life is short
so don't sweat the small stuff. I just think obsession over
trivialities is unhealthy.

> I fail to see how you can condemn 
> Snape so strongly, considering that
> his one murder isn't anywhere as bad
> as what LV and some of his other DEs did.

And I find it very very difficult to believe that you really do "fail
to see" that. 

Eggplant