Snape as infidel was Re: Kant and Snape and Ethics and Everything

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 150398

> Betsy Hp:
> Ah!  Now I think I understand what you're saying, and I agree.  I 
> don't want to see the Hogwarts house system come to an end.  There 
> is a beauty and healthiness in allowing for the different 
> philosophies and appreciating each house's strength even if it's not 
> your particular thing.
> 
> I think I got hung up on the religion thing (which does bring a lot 
> of extra stuff to the table, IMO).  If I think about it as different 
> philosophies it jells better for me.  It's like on Star Trek you've 
> got the three philosophies of Spock, Kirk and McCoy and the three 
> together can take on the universe in a way they never could apart.  
> Trying to mush them together into one single philosophy would never 
> work, but there is a need for each man to recognize and appreciate 
> the strength of the other.
>
Pippin:

On the bridge of the Enterprise there's diversity but no difference: 
no money, no politics, no religion, no wars on Earth, no family life, 
no disputes over gender roles or race relations
 -- nothing, in short, that makes diversity hard to manage in real life.

The Houses are separated by more than personal style -- they
are separated by real, substantive differences over how to live. Their
challenge is to keep Voldemort from manipulating these rivalries to
set them against one another. I think it can be done -- but  only if they
agree to be equal partners in the fight despite their honest feeling 
that their side of the issue is right and any good person would see it 
that way.

Pippin