DanielLC comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 119 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 11 March 2015 07:09:24PM 1 point [-]

The unbreakable vow is basically giving people the death penalty with no way to ask for any kind of exemption due to unforeseen circumstances. It's not something to be used lightly. Also, in Methods of Rationality someone permanently has to lose some magic, which is also something not to be used lightly.

Comment author: Leonhart 11 March 2015 09:59:20PM 0 points [-]

Don't follow. You see "making an actually binding promise" as equivalent to dying?

Comment author: DanielLC 11 March 2015 10:44:40PM -1 points [-]

No. I'm saying Unbreakable Vows kill people who break them.

Comment author: Velorien 12 March 2015 12:00:56AM 3 points [-]

"...so shall it be," Harry repeated, and he knew in that moment that the content of the Vow was no longer something he could decide whether or not to do, it was simply the way in which his body and mind would move. It was not a vow he could break even by sacrificing his life in the process. Like water flowing downhill or a calculator summing numbers, it was just a thing-Harry-Potter-would-do.

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