Re: Pearlette to Duj
(Anonymous)
Child soldiers is just as much a horrible form of child abuse as pedophilia, and one which is just as much of a real world problem. Maybe you didn't notice because the victims of child soldiery are "third-worlders", and we safe comfortable westerners don't usually get confronted with the issue close up.
Here we go again. More ‘ad hominem’. I’m not going to dignify this with a response.
Ad hominem attacks: attacks on the character or personal attributes of the writer rather than the person's argument
That is not what duj is doing above.
Also: it's clear by the end of the book series that Dumbledore was reckless with Harry's life and possibly planning for Harry to get killed all along. Harry of all people accepts this. Maybe we're meant to forgive Dumbledore or like him in spite of this, maybe this theme is just not meant to be taken seriously, but it is a part of the text, an undeniable part of it. It makes sense to take those themes and character developments into account in the course of interpreting the book. So, the comment about Dumbledore's character is relevant in the context of this discussion.
Here we go again. More ‘ad hominem’. I’m not going to dignify this with a response.
Ad hominem attacks: attacks on the character or personal attributes of the writer rather than the person's argument
That is not what duj is doing above.
Also: it's clear by the end of the book series that Dumbledore was reckless with Harry's life and possibly planning for Harry to get killed all along. Harry of all people accepts this. Maybe we're meant to forgive Dumbledore or like him in spite of this, maybe this theme is just not meant to be taken seriously, but it is a part of the text, an undeniable part of it. It makes sense to take those themes and character developments into account in the course of interpreting the book. So, the comment about Dumbledore's character is relevant in the context of this discussion.