Ah, apologies I mean the fact that their magics interact in weird ways. He’s known about it for a long time, but hasn’t really gone out of his way to research it. Unless I’m forgetting, I don’t think he’s even looked it up in the library.
Re: the unicorn, yeah I’m aware of his thoughts, but that is an extremely uncritical approach. Even if we accept that a unicorn is less than a wizards life, he is basically saying its fine to kill something to gain at most a year (as far as we can tell? Its implied that unicorn blood is not an indefinite cure?). There should be some attempt at moral calculus there at least.
Well, really now, Harry eats meat. In other words he will accept the death of a nonsentient creature for purposes, not even of keeping himself alive for a few additional hours—he could eat veggies—but just because they taste good. To preserve life? Pff. The argument about sentience is one he ought to have, but conditional on unicorns being nonsentient, they are just not valuable compared to additional months of life.
There aren’t any clues that unicorns are sentient, so there’s no reason why Harry should find QM killing a unicorn more thought provoking than eating pork.
Ah, apologies I mean the fact that their magics interact in weird ways. He’s known about it for a long time, but hasn’t really gone out of his way to research it. Unless I’m forgetting, I don’t think he’s even looked it up in the library.
Re: the unicorn, yeah I’m aware of his thoughts, but that is an extremely uncritical approach. Even if we accept that a unicorn is less than a wizards life, he is basically saying its fine to kill something to gain at most a year (as far as we can tell? Its implied that unicorn blood is not an indefinite cure?). There should be some attempt at moral calculus there at least.
Well, really now, Harry eats meat. In other words he will accept the death of a nonsentient creature for purposes, not even of keeping himself alive for a few additional hours—he could eat veggies—but just because they taste good. To preserve life? Pff. The argument about sentience is one he ought to have, but conditional on unicorns being nonsentient, they are just not valuable compared to additional months of life.
His best friend just died and it looks like his mentor is next. Good recipe for motivated reasoning.
There aren’t any clues that unicorns are sentient, so there’s no reason why Harry should find QM killing a unicorn more thought provoking than eating pork.