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NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapters 105-107 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 February 2015 03:00:56AM 2 points [-]

Did Harry ever give serious thought to whether his strong desire to never be responsible for a death actually makes sense when he's going to have to deal with violent situations?

Comment author: tim 20 February 2015 06:16:08AM 0 points [-]

Chapter 85. And arguably his scenes with Dumbledore regarding "the phoenix's price."

Comment author: linkhyrule5 18 February 2015 07:43:22AM 0 points [-]

Well, it seems to be axiomatic. It's not a matter of "being responsible for a death" so much as "death is bad." Even in a violent situation, the ideal is to save everyone's life.

As he then says, though, if you can't save everyone, you have no right playing batman.