The Statute of Secrecy

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 159144

> Mike:
> I think a_svirn was being flippant. I was being ironic, or at least 
> I was trying. I was stringing together a_svirn's posts, to wit: it's 
> unethical for a wizard to use memory charms on Muggles for the 
> common good, yet not unethical to commit murder for the common good?
> Of course that's absurd. Likewise, I consider it absurd to critisize 
> a Potterverse wizard for using a Memory Charm legally (in their 
> world) to protect their world and, by extension, the Muggles from 
> being thrown into the sanitarium for believing in magic. Please note 
> that I use the term "Muggles" not human beings, to distinguish 
> between the Potterverse and the RW.

a_svirn:
Except that I never said that it's not unethical to commit a murder 
for the common good. I said it would have been *the best* for the 
common good if someone killed Riddle in his cradle. Appreciate the 
difference.
I am pretty sure, however, you were not being intellectually dishonest 
here, just a bit inaccurate. The sort of thing that can happen to 
everyone.