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Gryffindor! |
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Hufflepuff! |
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Ravenclaw! |
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35% |
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:23 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:20 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:11 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:32 pm
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:42 am
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"Oh dear... did you only want 18 inches for our responses?? I only ask because when I did it, I wrote 28 inches... will that be a problem?" ((tee-hee embracing the Granger in me...)) *looks down at roll of parchment that is homework* "Well, I've actually already answered most of these extra credit questions in my homework, but it wouldn't hurt to reiterate it here so others might start sharing too... "
Quote: Try to justify the ideas behind some of the very first attempts to distinguish “being” from “beast”? What is your opinion of the currently accepted stand on defining a “being” and the problems with it so far?
"Erm, well, I know from a muggle standpoint, the ability to walk on two legs is huge, I mean apart from birds, bipedal movement is an exclusively human characteristic, the fact that we're built taking gravity into account while standing upright, other creatures may stagger on two from time to time, but no other creature truly walks like humans. Again from a muggle viewpoint, so I can see how that definition might have merit. And language is something that requires a higher thought process, it's just we wizards get into our ethnocentric ways, feeling that it has to be something we can understand. And in needing to understand it, we forced ourselves to accept creatures such as jarveys (bless them!) as beings! The idea has merit, if only they hadn't limited it to wizard-language, and if they hadn't forgotten that language is made up of sentences not of words..."
*scratches head* "Blimey, I'm talking quite a bit, and I still have one more thing to respond to... "
"Erm- It's difficult to say about my standing on the current issue... there's one thing about the centaurs that I'm not quite clear on... you said they have a slot in the 'Beast division' that is instead of the 'being division'? Because of their refusal to acknowledge wizard laws have they put in with acromantulas and sphinxes? You know, 'incapable of overcoming their brutal nature' or whatever it was... That was the bit that got me. It think I'm a mind of the enlightenment, feeling like we should have the policy of 'all beings created equal.' But then, we're back again to the argument of defining the term 'being.' ... Ah well..."
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:13 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:27 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:11 am
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Try to justify the ideas behind some of the very first attempts to distinguish “being” from “beast”? I suppose that the two original attempts to classify a 'being' were simply some of the most obvious ways things are usually grouped, by whether they look or sound the same. Therefore, the council probably thought this would make the most sense for this classification as well. It started out as trying to use their common sense, but did not really end up that way. Perhaps they were only thinking of humans, goblins, and house elves when they set the original guidelines?
What is your opinion of the currently accepted stand on defining a “being” and the problems with it so far? It is certainly an improvement over the past criteria, but is still lacking in that judging on the basis of a species' intelligence seems rather subjective. I also have issues with the apparent ranking system of the beings that they do acknowledge, such as no one but humans being allowed wands. Of course, the other beings seem to be talented at magic without them, such as goblins and house elves, but it just seems like a way for wizards to try to prove their own superiority. (I do have a problem with the sheer existence of house elves as they are now, but that's a whole other discussion; that wizards must have done a lot in the past to make an entire species forcibly subservient to them, and that it is still accepted in society, is rather disturbing.)
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