Sharing Some Wisdom

[will_to_power37]

Rereading some old books I found at the Muggle orphanage a few summers ago. I highly doubt these authors were really Muggles. They know too much...too much that falls in the favour of us as wizards. Here is one excerpt I am particularly fond of

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*resists urge to google passage*

[poisonousprince]

How interesting.

Don't cheat!!

[will_to_power37]

Isn't it?

[effingsexy]

Really, Tom?

[will_to_power37]

You honestly wouldn't expect any different of me, would you?

((ooc: I was so tempted to just put, 'Really.' but you know Voldy can't stand one-word replies. Freakin speech writer.))

[effingsexy]

Not at all.

[flaming_lion]

The suffering of many for the greater good? The amassing of individual pain in order to spark the attainment of some sort of "higher" purpose?

Men are individuals Tom, and while the great achievements of mankind are great they do not justify one moment of unneccessary pain inflicted on another. We are civilised and society is not a machine nor is it a mirror of the natural world, we ought to be above that. Mercy will not cause stagnation, rather it will inspire achievement out of a desire to alleviate suffering, that desire you seem to feel disdain for.

[will_to_power37]

I suppose you have forgotten that age old saying, "spare the rod, spoil the child"? No great achievement of mankind was born out of mercy or contentment but out of hardship and grief. Even parents understand that their children must suffering the consequences of their own actions and do not impede them making mistakes for sometimes it is only by our suffering that any real progress is made in our human condition. Nature herself demands that only the fittest among us survive, yet we daily cater to the weakest of our society and, in fact, smile upon the reproduction of the weak. No other species does this. You will find no mercy among the lions, yet we of the human race are dwindling in our strength, intellect, and ability to create because of this mercy you hold to that becomes rather a curse than a blessing. When have you seen a happy man move even a finger to make better his world? He has no need! It is suffering that causes need for ingenuity, and we do ourselves a grave danger to fight it and not embrace what Nature has ordained

[flaming_lion]

I never saw you for a religious man Tom. The age old saying comes from a book that instructs us not to suffer our own kind to live or have you forgotten? Perhaps you merely do not know the origens of that quote. Lions have no mercy, but lions do not build, they have no civilisation, they slaughter entire generations of cubs in order to mate with females - not because those cubs are flawed but for the pleasure of the act. We are better than animals, we must be. We are better than the natural world. Mercy is something that seperates us from animals

I swear I am a very devout Christian no matter what Voldy says. XD

[will_to_power37]

Religion has its uses for the masses, though it does and should not govern those with power, and for that reason it is instructional if not authoritative. Or are you suggesting that we adhere to every account in the infamous book you are alluding to, including the part where it bids us to exterminate and count as damned all of the wizarding race? The very fact that such a book that would see us all rot in hell calls for a sense of mercy and grace beyond our nature should immediately ring alarm bells in our heads. We are not better than the natural world for we are its offspring. We are merely more blessed but not enough to see that we have yet to use the tools Nature has given us, instead choosing to pollute our race rather than purify it as are Nature's ways.
Yes advances are being made but let me tell you where. In the Muggle realm where they already recognize the orders of Nature that I am prescribing, though not to the fullest. They abort unnecessary children, they sterilize the weak, they allow the old and ill to die without