[HPforGrownups] Was Death an easy choice for Harry to make WAS: Re:Back to Slytherin House

Bart Lidofsky bartl at sprynet.com
Fri Aug 24 14:43:27 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 176183

Marion (delurking for a minute before diving under again):
>Harry Potter is just as courageous as a terrorist bomber. You have 
>to admit, suicide bombers are pretty courageous. They willingly lay 
>down their lives for an ideal, to fight what they think is Evil.
>Yup, suicide bombers are pretty courageous.
>I just don't think them very admirable, that's all.

Bart:
How many people did Harry kill? How many people did Harry TRY to kill? Were the people who Harry was fighting trying to kill him? Who tried to kill whom first?

Therein lies the difference. 

Remember, shoving an elderly woman into the path of a car is NOT the same as shoving an elderly woman OUT of the path of a car, regardless of what the moral equivalence crowd says. 

Bart





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