muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 155205

Magpie:

> The danger of the DEs to other wizards may be, among 
> other things, that by being so bad other people don't 
> examine their own prejudices.  It's like as long as 
> they're not a DE they can't have any bigotry--and 
> sometimes that defense is used for them.

houyhnhnm:

This is what bothers me about defining goodness merely 
as being on the "right" side.  If all petty meanness, 
selfishness, etc., can be overlooked as long as one 
opposes Voldemort, what happens when Voldemort is 
defeated.  How will it be possible to distinguish good 
from bad when LV is no longer around.  With this system 
of morality, you have to have a Dark Lord.  You will 
always have to have a Dark Lord.