Dumbledore and other leaders WAS: Moody's death

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 179476

---  "a_svirn" <a_svirn at ...> wrote:
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> 
> a_svirn:
> Even so there is something particularly unsavoury in the idea
> of using them blindly. They might have been ready to die for 
> Harry, but what right had Dumbledore to play God and decide 
> for them?
>

bboyminn:

So, was General George Patton playing God when he send countless
thousands of soldiers to their deaths? They called him 'Blood
and Guts' Patton. Upon meeting Patton a soldier remarked, 'yeah,
our blood, his guts'. While thousands went to die, Patton sat 
safely in a war room pushing toy soldiers around on a map.

The point I'm making now, and the point I have made many times
before, is that some one has to lead, some one has to make
these dark and terrible decisions. Some one has to weight
'collateral damage' as a fact of war.

Dumbledore had to make hard decisions, decisions that had 
no easy answers. Every decision he made resulted in deaths.
So, he made the best decisions he could in the moment. Keep
in mind that there are Civil War buffs who are still 
analyzing and criticizing Civil War Battles.

Analyzing and criticizing is easy, especially after the fact,
having the responsibility of making the hard decisions and 
living with the consequences is hard. It is easy to second
guess when you know full well that no blood will actually be
on your hands.

But when you hold that blood and those live in your hands,
when the mantle of God has been thrust upon you, suddenly
the 'easy' decisions are not so easy after all.

Just one man's opinion.

Steve/bboyminn