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Eugine_Nier comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 12 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 March 2012 03:37:38AM 9 points [-]

I suppose I have a bit of Quirrell in me. He takes a grim satisfaction in the poetry of citizens being destroyed in the same prisons they demanded be built. The word for that is justice. A harsher justice than I'd want to seen meted out, but justice nevertheless. I wouldn't have squashed Skeeter, but I can't condemn Quirrell for it either.

I would just like to point out the unintentional irony in that paragraph.

Comment author: disinter 28 March 2012 05:49:16AM 1 point [-]

I'm afraid I can't spot it. Could you point it out for me?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 March 2012 06:23:33AM 7 points [-]

The word for that is justice. A harsher justice than I'd want to seen meted out, but justice nevertheless.

Is probably precisely the rational people used when demanding the prisons be built.

Comment author: disinter 28 March 2012 07:36:20AM 1 point [-]

Thank you, that makes it very clear.