thomblake comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 03 August 2010 06:01:04PM 6 points [-]

Evil Cannot Comprehend Good

Clearly happening in MoR, at least to some extent. AFAICT, Quirrel honestly can't tell why Harry wouldn't want to be a dark lord, and Draco's completely incapable of grokking Harry's motivations; pretty much whenever Draco tries he gets it wrong. Quirrell also won't understand why Harry wouldn't just flee, rather than sticking around to fix things.

Comment author: wedrifid 06 August 2010 04:05:38AM 2 points [-]

Angel: People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do.

Hamilton: Yeah, but we won't care.