I'm pretty offended/vaguely annoyed/whatever that people feel there NEEDS to be blame in the Sectumsempra scene-- that seems to be, y'know, ENTIRELY MISSING THE POINT, HELLO. Either blaming Draco or Harry in that... seems CRUEL :P And exemplifies why I think black-and-white moral judgments just... SUCK (yeah, I can't help the caps, ahahaha). I don't even want to empathize with the mindset of a person who'd NEED to blame either of them enough to ignore all the stuff that brought them to that point, that's really at heart of what happened. If I HAD to, I'd say BOTH of them are to blame and in any situation where someone's malicious vs. stupid, BOTH people are to blame. Stupid = bad and malicious = ALSO BAD. I'm not naive enough to say 'no one's ever to blame', but I'm at least rational enough to understand that misunderstandings, social conflicts & feuds and things are IN NO WAY, EVER the fault of just one side or just one person. It's like Capulet vs. Montague-- who's to blame? Why, BOTH! :P
The idea of picking 'sides' in any family dispute is even more patently ridiculous. I guess in a case of outright abuse, the person abusing the power to physically/mentally hurt the other person is the one who's 'to blame', but why the HELL is that question even raised in that situation? What, is there an alternative where the like, five year-old victim is to blame?? So that's pretty clear-cut; even there though, most likely the person who's the abuser has had a history of child abuse themselves, which doesn't absolve them in any legal/moral practical way, but puts their free will (to choose their behavior) under question, in a similar way an insanity defense would. It's not -insane-, but it's extremely disturbed behavior. Well, this doesn't really apply in any of these cases, but it's an example to show I -can- pick sides, too.
The Snape vs. the MWPP is a bit ridiculous to judge in a single yes/no binary for different reasons-- because it's not JUST ONE INCIDENT-- it's got a history for which it is the climax, and while that doesn't excuse the MWPP, it puts it into context enough so that one wouldn't just summarily send the guys to juvie (in the real world). There is no 'excuse' for endangering another student's life-- period. PERIOD. God. -.-; That's not even debatable. However, first of all only Sirius is to blame there, not 'the MWPP'; secondly, one should be careful what one's blaming Sirius -for-, and also careful not to say he's the 'winner' and Snape is somehow 'innocent', because that's far from the truth. Whether or not he's 'stupid', however, is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT, because, hello-- wilfully endangering his -life-.
The verbal fight thing just makes me laugh. And then blame the person doing the blaming. :/
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Date: 2006-11-16 12:40 am (UTC)The idea of picking 'sides' in any family dispute is even more patently ridiculous. I guess in a case of outright abuse, the person abusing the power to physically/mentally hurt the other person is the one who's 'to blame', but why the HELL is that question even raised in that situation? What, is there an alternative where the like, five year-old victim is to blame?? So that's pretty clear-cut; even there though, most likely the person who's the abuser has had a history of child abuse themselves, which doesn't absolve them in any legal/moral practical way, but puts their free will (to choose their behavior) under question, in a similar way an insanity defense would. It's not -insane-, but it's extremely disturbed behavior. Well, this doesn't really apply in any of these cases, but it's an example to show I -can- pick sides, too.
The Snape vs. the MWPP is a bit ridiculous to judge in a single yes/no binary for different reasons-- because it's not JUST ONE INCIDENT-- it's got a history for which it is the climax, and while that doesn't excuse the MWPP, it puts it into context enough so that one wouldn't just summarily send the guys to juvie (in the real world). There is no 'excuse' for endangering another student's life-- period. PERIOD. God. -.-; That's not even debatable. However, first of all only Sirius is to blame there, not 'the MWPP'; secondly, one should be careful what one's blaming Sirius -for-, and also careful not to say he's the 'winner' and Snape is somehow 'innocent', because that's far from the truth. Whether or not he's 'stupid', however, is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT, because, hello-- wilfully endangering his -life-.
The verbal fight thing just makes me laugh. And then blame the person doing the blaming. :/