glumph comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 11 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: glumph 23 March 2012 05:47:06PM 0 points [-]

While Dumbledore and Lucius and other major figures might be sane, I'm not sure if we're supposed to take the majority of the Wizengamot to be anything other than, in Harry's words, "stupid, corrupt, and evil."

Comment author: DanArmak 23 March 2012 07:00:53PM 4 points [-]

On the same kind of criteria, you might expect the majority of all wizards and indeed all humans to be stupid, corrupt, and evil-when-given-great-power. It's a Quirrel kind of thought. Which doesn't make it untrue.