Wands and Wizards...Again (Was: Epilogue ...)

pippin_999 foxmoth at qnet.com
Wed Jul 16 16:35:51 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 183718

Magpie:
 It's like an  abstract problem: can you find something wrong with
slavery if a  person wants to be a slave? And I feel like it would
still be wrong. 

Pippin:
The moral objection to involuntary servitude lies in the "involuntary"
part. One could object to  servitude itself because it's unequal and
potentially vulnerable to abuse. But all dependent relationships are
like that.

If Kreacher was working for wages and had the full and equal
protection of wizarding law (for what that's worth <g>) Harry could
still give him an abusive order, and Kreacher could still feel
financially or socially or psychologically pressured to carry it out.
That would be blackmail and immoral. But we don't usually say that a
relationship is immoral simply because the potential for blackmail exists.

Pippin
  





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