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[eggplant107]

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 Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:

> this sounds an awful like 
> the end justifying the means

That's because sometimes the end does justify the means, if it never
did then there would be no justification, that is to say no reason,
for doing anything at all and you'd just sit there as an inert lump.

> there ARE certain things good guys
> are not  permitted to do and still
> remain good guys.

Too much hand wringing can give morality a bad name. People sometimes
think of morality as effete, weak and always a looser, and indeed it
is just that if one places the sort of shackles on it you are
recommending. I am not saying anything goes, but good heavens let
something go, especially in a war.
   
> Am I the only one who 
> sees a slippery slope here?

Life is the art of living on a slippery slope and always has been. Go
too far in one direction and you become a moral monster, go too far in
the other direction and you're dead and everyone you know is dead and
your entire civilization is dead. That was Harry's dilemma, and
although he broke a few rules, overall I think he managed rather well.
He won but did not turn into a monster.

One last thing, I think a lot of people get hung up over the
Unforgivable Curses because of the name, but remember who gave them
that unflattering name, the Ministry of Magic, and the Ministry isn't
exactly the master of morality.
 
 Eggplant