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Remus J. Lupin is a werewolf. ([info]onceamarauder) wrote in [info]confundoanon,
@ 2011-11-13 14:50:00

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Entry tags:character: remus lupin, time: 1977-11

Anonymous
Werewolves and vampires and other dangerous creatures should all be put to death to keep the rest of us safe. At the very least, they shouldn't be allowed to run around wild like they do. Lock them all up and throw away the key! Maybe then we wouldn't have to keep reading in the Daily Prophet about people being attacked!



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Anonymous
[info]melissamoran
2011-11-13 09:19 am UTC (link)
That's a little harsh, don't you think? I mean, werewolves are only dangerous during the full moon, right? I'm not saying there shouldn't be legal precautions, like making sure werewolves are locked away during full moons, but there's no need to execute them for something that they didn't choose.

I'm sure some Muggles might say the same about us, that we're dangerous and shouldn't be allowed to run around with wands.

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Anonymous
[info]onceamarauder
2011-11-13 09:56 am UTC (link)
I actually thought I was putting that politely, considering some of the letters to the editor that are sometimes printed in the Daily Prophet.

The difference between us and werewolves though, is that we are capable of thinking through our actions, and the vast majority of us don't run around using the killing curse willy nilly. Werewolves, on the other hand, have absolutely no control and kill indiscriminatingly. Sure, it's only one night a month, but what about the werewolves that go rogue and give up on being human all together no matter what time of the month it is? Surely it would be kinder to put them out of their misery from the beginning.

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Anonymous
[info]melissamoran
2011-11-13 10:18 am UTC (link)
Well, those werewolves that refuse to live as humans should be arrested for any illegal behavior, but the others shouldn't be punished for their actions. And I don't think it should be up to us to decide whether executing them would be putting them out of their misery. They might not be in their right minds in their wolf state, but the rest of the time, they can make their own decisions.

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Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 10:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]evanstually, 2011-11-13 04:46 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 05:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evanstually, 2011-11-13 05:07 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]melissamoran, 2011-11-14 02:24 am UTC
Anonymous - [info]onceaknight, 2011-11-13 07:32 pm UTC
Anonymous
[info]marymacattack
2011-11-13 09:56 am UTC (link)
This is completely horrible. It's the same type of prejudice that purebloods spout against muggleborns. A human life is a human life and that's all that should matter.

Take your hate elsewhere you coward.

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Anonymous
[info]onceamarauder
2011-11-13 09:58 am UTC (link)
What about the human lives that are taken by these monsters? Don't they deserve to be protected?

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[info]evanstually
2011-11-13 04:20 pm UTC (link)
They are. By the law. Just as they are protected from Dark Wizards, serial killers, and drunk drivers. Those laws don't always work, but that's the price we pay for living with free will.

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Anonymous
[info]marymacattack
2011-11-13 10:19 pm UTC (link)
I'm not going to lie and say that if I ever did meet a werewolf or vampire that I wouldn't be wary, I would, but if I got to know the person, NOT MONSTER, and found that they had a good heart I'd care about them like I care about any of my friends. But you know what, I'm also wary of witches and wizards that aren't lycanthropes of vampires. A person should be judged on the merits of who they are as a person and the decisions they make. I'm sure vampires and werewolves that don't want to hurt innocent lives take the necessary precautions to prevent such a thing from happening. Why should they be chastised by society? The werewolf or vampire that attacks or kills should be punished, just like those witches and wizards who commit those horrendous acts are as well. 

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Anonymous
[info]onceaknight
2011-11-13 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Hear, hear.

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Anonymous
[info]fanceyvancey
2011-11-13 03:57 pm UTC (link)
Well, this certainly is not a light topic like who fancies whom that we have seen here in the past. What an interesting change of pace.

As for the issue at hand, there are many ways to approach the problem. It's a rather sticky issue to be sure, but I don't think total annihilation is the answer. Is it right to condemn all for the actions of a select few? I think not. We are only exposed to the attacks because that's what sells copies of the Daily Prophet and are rare enough to catch the attention of the community. We won't hear about the vampires who buy the blood-flavoured lollipops in Honeydukes or the werewolf who keeps a low profile trying to get by (hypothetically speaking, of course, since I've never met one myself) for the other three hundred and fifty-three days of the year when they're not in their right mind because they're not sensational events. Now, I'm not saying that we should sit back and not do anything about the ones who are going around attacking wizards and muggles alike since taking away someones life through death or through the transmission of lycanthropy is a heinous offense, but lumping them all in one group and throwing the book at them isn't the best way to go about solving the problem.

Oh, dear. I seemed to have babbled a bit. That's just my two knuts.

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Anonymous
[info]onceamarauder
2011-11-13 04:26 pm UTC (link)
You make a good point. We do tend to only hear the negative stories, which is probably why the general public are so anti-werwolf. The fact is though that the vast majority of people out there are anti-werewolf and quite rightly. The dangerous werewolves who don't care if they hurt anyone are justifiably terrifying and it seems the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures are powerless to find them and deal with them. So as long as we have these dangerous werewolves out there, people will continue to be bitten and killed. Everyone seems to agree that we should do something about these particular werewolves but it seems to me that no one knows what to do. And meanwhile more and more people are getting hurt. The werewolf population would be getting smaller, not larger, if they could stop the rogue werewolves, but what makes a werewolf go rogue in the first place? Who's to say that a currently nice, relatively harmless werewolf right now won't one day get fed up with being treated like a second class citizen (or worse) and turn to the other side?

And I can't help but notice that only a handful of people have come forward in support of werewolves while the rest of the school population are probably pretending they don't see this entry so they don't have to admit their true feelings on the subject.

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Anonymous
[info]arcanely
2011-11-13 04:52 pm UTC (link)
Or perhaps the rest of us simply have something better to do than to admit you are right. After all, I personally would rather spend my Sunday doing anything else than having to defend my point of view to the select few who seem to think the outside world is just like Hogwarts.

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Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 05:03 pm UTC
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Anonymous
[info]fanceyvancey
2011-11-13 05:20 pm UTC (link)
You have to apply the same set of reasoning to humans regardless of what genre (for lack of a better word) they fit in. There are humans out there who are just as terrifying and are going around killing people willy-nilly because they don't like how they're being treated with little thought to society and their rules. People will be killed regardless of what 'type' of human instigates the murder. What makes a werewolf go rogue is the same thing that makes a human - they do not like the status quo and feel like they can change it single-handedly among other reasons.

There will always be those who are more outspoken than others, love, and some who simply choose to keep their mouths closed because they believe it doesn't pertain to them. I'm not accusing anyone by any means, but we all have the right to voice - or not voice - our opinions.

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Anonymous
[info]warmly
2011-11-13 04:03 pm UTC (link)
I think they should be treated like people. I mean, they are people! But if they're doing something evil, they need to be punished just like other people!

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Anonymous
[info]onceamarauder
2011-11-13 04:14 pm UTC (link)
What's your definition of "something evil"?

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Anonymous
[info]warmly
2011-11-13 04:17 pm UTC (link)
Using the unforgivable curses. And killing someone, though werewolves and vampires sometimes do that. But they can avoid it, can't they? I don't know much about werewolves and vampires really, but I think they should be limited by the same laws as the rest of us!

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Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 04:30 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]warmly, 2011-11-13 04:37 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 04:50 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]warmly, 2011-11-13 04:54 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 05:05 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]warmly, 2011-11-13 05:10 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 05:12 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]warmly, 2011-11-13 05:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evanstually, 2011-11-13 05:23 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 05:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evanstually, 2011-11-13 04:45 pm UTC
Anonymous - [info]onceamarauder, 2011-11-13 05:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]evanstually, 2011-11-13 05:22 pm UTC
(NOT anonymous)
[info]evanstually
2011-11-13 04:17 pm UTC (link)
This is nothing but melodramatic fear-mongering. Werewolves, vampires and all the rest are people like the rest of us- people with unique circumstances, yes, people who are at times inclined to be dangerous. Aren't we all? Any one of us could, if we chose, cast an Unforgivable curse at any time. It is not the potential for an act of evil that defines a person. There are good vampires and peaceful werewolves, just as there are kind witches and noble wizards. Individuals must be judged not on what but on who they are, or it's back to the Dark Ages for all the world.

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Anonymous/Lily
[info]onceamarauder
2011-11-13 04:35 pm UTC (link)
Lily I love you Thank you.

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Anonymous/Lily
[info]evanstually
2011-11-13 04:43 pm UTC (link)
You're welcome, though it's only the truth, and some might say I have supremely selfish motives for saying people ought to be judged on their behavior rather than their circumstances.

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Anonymous
[info]onceaknight
2011-11-13 07:38 pm UTC (link)
Precisely! If we're just playing devil's advocate here, then we all have the potential to go rogue and turn against society- pre-judging anyone, based on their blood status, creature status, whether or not they have magic at all- anything that purposefully and menacingly divides society- is wrong.

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Anonymous
[info]ggudgeon
2011-11-14 12:54 am UTC (link)
Why would you lock them away? Why not just work toward better treatments, or a cure? That's what muggles do about sickness.

Was there an attack or something recently?

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Anonymous
[info]lessthanperfect
2011-11-14 01:39 am UTC (link)
It seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I agree. We'd be safer if the Ministry took greater action against such creatures.

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Anonymous
[info]marymacattack
2011-11-14 02:33 am UTC (link)
And what actions do you propose they take?

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Anonymous
[info]lessthanperfect
2011-11-14 02:45 am UTC (link)
The ones in the original entry seem to make the most sense.

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Anonymous - [info]marymacattack, 2011-11-14 02:58 am UTC
Anonymous - [info]lessthanperfect, 2011-11-14 02:59 am UTC
Anonymous - [info]marymacattack, 2011-11-14 03:10 am UTC
Anonymous - [info]lessthanperfect, 2011-11-14 03:15 am UTC
Anonymous - [info]marymacattack, 2011-11-14 03:48 am UTC
Anonymous - [info]lessthanperfect, 2011-11-14 03:52 am UTC
Anonymous.
[info]purepetual
2011-11-14 05:41 pm UTC (link)
Never heard truer words. Those creatures are disgusting and a danger to society.

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Anonymous
[info]snivellus
2011-11-14 06:37 pm UTC (link)
Obviously this is an extreme position. Vampires are no more or less dangerous than any moron with a wand and mayhem on their mind. They have control of their condition, and as such should be held to the same standards as everyone else.

Werewolves, however, do not have the benefit of human sentience during the full moon, and therefore have the added responsibility of finding some way to restrain themselves during that time, before the fact. If they fail to do so, they should be held responsible just the same.

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