[ SECRET POST #2889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2889 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[feotakahari]

This reminds me way too much of the folks in My Little Pony fandom(!) who think they inherently have the power to kill people without qualms, and it makes them naturally better than folks who would have qualms about killing people. Utility isn't about raw power, it's about how that power is used. Wizards, like soldiers, would have value to the extent that they helped other people--and wizards in Harry Potter don't have a great track record in helping other people.

Edit: the analogy I always like to draw is lions. From a Darwinian perspective, lions that kill the cubs of other lions are superior competitors. They ensure that only their own genes will be passed down. But they hasten the species' extinction, so their genes will only survive in the short term. Power--whether the power to kill, the power to heal, the power to create, or the power to play the piano really well--means nothing if it's only used for personal gain.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[(Anonymous)]

It's just that the whole Wizards vs Muggles things (especially in the final books) is framed as a racism or Nazi analog.

And I just think it doesn't make sense in the slightest. There really isn't any difference between the races -- race is a social construct. But being a wizard or a muggle isn't. And being a wizard gives you abilities that being a muggle doesn't. There's no advantage to being a muggle over a wizard.

Even qualms about killing people can be a good or bad thing depending on the situation. But I don't think there's ever a situation where having magic can be seen as a disadvantage the way not having magic is.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[feotakahari]

Well, if you want to go that route, it might be worth bringing up what the Nazis did to the handicapped . . .

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[(Anonymous)]

But if you gave handicapped people the option to have the ability to walk back, they would take it. Hence why becoming handicapped can be so emotionally devastating for some people.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[(Anonymous)]

But that doesn't mean that it's okay to kill handicapped people.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[(Anonymous)]

Holy Christ I don't know where I said it did.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[arcadiaego]

People in the My Little Pony fandom want to kill other people???

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[feotakahari]

In all honesty, I think they're actually in the military sci-fi fandom, and they want to show how inferior "cutesy" series are to series about killing things.

Re: Kind of an off-topic question but...

[(Anonymous)]

You lost me at MPL fans wanting to kill people.