If so, then Morgan (who at the time was always looking for a reason to harass Harry) would have harassed Harry about the woman who had just drunk and purged a love potion.
I maintain that vomiting up the love potion didn't completely purge it from Susan's system, based on the premise that it enters the bloodstream as quickly as alcohol does.
If Morgan had known about it he very well may have tried to get Harry on that charge... Again back to the serial rapist thing, if Harry had gone around physically overpowering women and raping them the Council might not take notice... However if he used a magically brewed potion to overcome them and have sex against their will, they might... Just making the magical potion might not be a violation, but using it to force one's will on another could very well be.
Mine was excitable, you know, cause I had a recent woj nobody here had probably read directly from Jim's profile... Yours came with these morality questions I'm not here to discuss. I'm here to discuss the violation or potential of it in the fictional DF verse of a fictional universal law that only loosely is based upon real world morality as we know it, and is in fact intentionally set separately of it in the story in it's inception, not saying that's correct, but it's what IS.
So was mine,you yelled, I yelled back, but again you are wrong in the sense that one cannot separate real world morality questions from the DF universe.. Things might be written a bit different, however notice the First Law of Magic, the one about killing with magic... It may be a bit different from vanilla human law, and as you say, they might not blink at a wizard killing people by other means... However they do draw the line at doing it with magic. Why? Dead is dead, does it matter how the victim was killed? Apparently to the White Council it does, in their opinion magic should not be perverted in that way.
That is a moral stand, remember what Harry said about his soul gaze with Eb, how it shaped his wielding of magic? It was all about right and wrong, ethics etc, all moral stands and very much related to moral stands made in the real world.
These really have no answers and are not germaine to the answer to this particular question, and I don't feel it's the responsibility of my particular viewpoint to solve these problems.
... Same as I realized the thing I was getting ready to bitch about(to Jim) was not that it didn't make sense but that I've experience just how unfair life can be in action to consequence and that had nothing to do with the particulars of the convo, but not knowing the consequences of any given action even through simple ignorance..(course the real question is why can the fae reach across the veil without doing harm to themselves internally)
Because the fae are not human in the sense that humans, including wizards are.. The problem with your simple ignorance argument is it blames the victim.. Yes, our decisions in life all lead to consequences. Crossing a street, is a decision, deciding to use the crosswalk or not, looking both ways before or not, all have consequences.. However if out of the blue a speeding drunk driver hits and kills you, is it your fault for deciding to cross the street? Maybe, but what of the drunk, does he or she deserve the lion's share of the responsibility? Or are you better off never crossing the street in the first place because the risk is always present? Of course one will do what one can to mitigate the consequences, if you look both ways, use a crosswalk, obey the traffic light, you have a reasonable expectation that if you obey the rules you will do it safely.. As in if you are an innocent human minding your own business you have reasonable expectation that some wizard won't invade your mind without your permission... If he or she does, they are breaking one of the fundamental laws.. Then again, walking down the street one might not know there is a wizard walking behind who might invade your mind.. So your decision to walk on the street, should you stay home so your mind won't be invaded? If it is, who bares the greater responsibility, you for going for a walk, or the wizard who messed with your mind?
Behind that fundamental barrier, though, is your computer itself. Normally, you have it password protected, and yes, you can give someone else the password and they might well use it in an entirely benign way, but even then you're probably looking over their shoulder, wondering when's the last time you cleared your browsing history and hoping to God that they don't start their internet search with certain letters like "p."
If they don't know what they're doing, they might accidentally erase something you wanted to keep, or see something you wanted to keep private.
If they do know what they're doing, they could outright steal your files, change your settings or turn the whole thing into a brick.
Yup, and
it's a crime. Point being we all know the risks of using a computer, and most of us take steps to keep from being hacked.. Further if I chose to use a computer, unless I totally keep my head buried in the sand, I know there are privacy risks or worse doing that. However I like using the computer, so I get the best protections I can get, I chose not to do some tasks on it even if quicker because the cost of the hack is too high... But hacking can still happen, so I either totally refrain from using a computer and any other device that will connect me, or with precautions have a reasonable expectation that I can do it safely... If someone hacks me, it is on them..
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