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Love Potion, Huge Violation of 3rd Law?
Sir Huron Stone:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 11, 2018, 08:18:14 AM ---A lust potion in itself is not even immoral. You can share it with your spouse on a nice holliday.
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True.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 11, 2018, 08:40:19 AM ---From Turncoat:
And it goes on and on. The laws of magic have nothing to do with morality as explained by Captain Luccio.
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And Margaret was right, without justice there is no point. Common thugs can give a neighborhood protection, but who wants to live under the rule of thugs? Morgan's long harassment of Harry was about enforcing the Law, in the end as he died he realized it is also about justice and morality and he was wrong.
peregrine:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 11, 2018, 12:13:36 PM ---And Margaret was right, without justice there is no point. Common thugs can give a neighborhood protection, but who wants to live under the rule of thugs? Morgan's long harassment of Harry was about enforcing the Law, in the end as he died he realized it is also about justice and morality and he was wrong.
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Well, when the thug is charming and intelligent enough, and hangs out with the right people, sometimes people compare him to King Arthur.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 11, 2018, 12:13:36 PM ---And Margaret was right, without justice there is no point. Common thugs can give a neighborhood protection, but who wants to live under the rule of thugs? Morgan's long harassment of Harry was about enforcing the Law, in the end as he died he realized it is also about justice and morality and he was wrong.
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Morgan wasn't a thug. He truly believed Harry was a cold blooded killer. He realized he was wrong in that Harry wasn't who he thought he was. You have deemed the love drug a rape drug, if you honestly believed someone had used it would you treat them kindly?
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on July 11, 2018, 12:13:36 PM ---And Margaret was right, without justice there is no point. Common thugs can give a neighborhood protection, but who wants to live under the rule of thugs? Morgan's long harassment of Harry was about enforcing the Law, in the end as he died he realized it is also about justice and morality and he was wrong.
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The laws of magic are a human creation maintained and interpreted by a human organization and that organization does not agree.
To change the laws of magic to something else you have to change the council. Most of the council will resist such a change and Luccio spend a few pages in Turn coat to explain why such a change is not a good idea.
If you say the laws of magic should be about morality then we can have a discussion why that is a good or a bad idea. If you say the laws are about morality then the answer is simply no, they are not.
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