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Konkvistador comments on What is Evil about creating House Elves? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2010 03:21:46PM *  0 points [-]

You are assuming unmodified humans are doing the creating and are also using the agents. Point 2) can be made moot by modifying the users so as to eliminate damage to them.

Comment author: Manfred 13 December 2010 04:00:16PM 0 points [-]

True. Though this is not the case in the Harry Potter novels.