Morality - Blog Posts

R*wling shows throughout the series that she believes that bad things are only bad when they're done by the Bad Guys. However, if one of the designated Good Guys does the same thing it's not bad.

For example, use of the Unforgivable Curses. When the Bad Guys use them it's horrific, evil, one of the Worst Things Ever. But when Harry uses them, with alarming frequency, it's fine. He's not a Bad Guy, so the things he does can't be bad.

Then there's Snape. He's awful. Just awful. He's an incel creep. He's racist. He bullies young children just because he can, and is outright abusive to them if he didn't like their parents (even when said parents died when the kid was an infant). And oh yeah, he's an incel creep who became obsessed with a girl who did not return his feelings, called her slurs, and was a-okay with her husband and infant son being murdered. You cannot tell me that he wasn't hoping to swoop in and try to manipulate her into a relationship when she was vulnerable due to extreme grief. But, because she for some bizarre reason unwilling to stand aside quietly during the murder of her family, he started working for the Good Guys, which totally means that he's a Good Guy and none of the horrible things he did actually matter.

And then there's Dumbledore! Oh boy, I could write at least an Order of the Phoenix sized book about all the terrible things he did. But I'll keep it short here. He knowingly left a particularly vulnerable child in an abusive situation, and didn't even bother to actually check in on him now and again to make sure that he wasn't being, you know, abused or anything like that. He also left the baby in a basket, outside, for hours, because that was for some reason better than knocking at the door? He then manipulated a young child into basically becoming his private soldier against an evil wizard so powerful that the entire magical world pissed themselves at the mention of his name. But all this gets glossed over and is forgiven as easily as if he had just lost a pen someone had lent him. Because, after all, he's the ultimate Good Guy. And a Good Guy can't do bad things. Therefore, none of the things he did were actually bad.

This got a lot longer than I intended it to be. The views on morality in this series really bother me.

Sometimes I just sit around and think about ways to improve the Harry Potter books. Not even in a fix-it fic way. Just like...there are some seriously dropped threads in Deathly Hallows especially.

Do y'all ever think about the thing with Griphook? Harry choosing to deceive him about the sword of Gryffindor? Well, I do. It bothers me that there are no negative consequences for this. Because oop- Griphook double-crossed them too! So we never have to think about Harry making that choice. And the characterization of Griphook is squicky, man. He relishes the idea of weak creatures suffering, he's obnoxious. We can't even REALLY examine wizard/goblin relations because Griphook is such an uncomplicated little asshole. Did Gryffindor steal the sword from the goblin king??? Harry is uncomfy about it for like two seconds and then oop--guess we never need to think about it again. It's a bad writing choice and when I think about a book like Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay--a book that complexly and carefully and humanely examines racism--i feel super disappointed in the way the Harry Potter series just like...lets some things go.

This is, I think, one example of a handful of moments when Harry does a Bad Thing: lies, uses unforgivable curses etc. But there's no real examination of it. She nods at it a little like "harry was becoming as reckless a godfather and Sirius was to him" but then it just gets...dropped. There isn't even a "this is war; there is no moral high ground" moment. R*wling just seems to have no plan at all to examine any moral complexity in that final book. It makes me nuts.

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Some dude in 2020: You should not judge a historical figure, a man from the past, by the modern ethics! He was a product of his time. 500 years ago his actions were completely normal! It’s present-ism, we can’t judge… bla-bla-bla…

People from 500 years ago: Oh my, this guy is such a bastard, a genocidal butcher, a total piece of garbage. Let’s keep records of this douche so people from the future shall hate him too. 

The only difference between a monster and a hero is motive

Further Sanders Sides Thoughts

Im getting the sense everyone's been hating their jobs recently, dont you?

some fun reasons:

Janus is shitty at citing sources that are reliable and up-to-date and no one listens to him cuz they think hes lying all the time

Logan's literally the voice of reason and hes not being listened to cuz feelings

Roman just gave up on his dream come true because

Patton is having a midlife crisis because his job just became a thousand times more difficult cuz Thomas is growing up

Remus well, most people still jsut dont like him, do they? and logan seems to be the only one (aside from maybe Janus because janus knows already) whos starting to see his role in helping Thomas

Virgil's fears and past grievances are stopping him from listening to the dark sides' points unbiased and openminded because they do make some DELICIOUS points

(gaining sentience is the biggest regret they all have, as so helpfully pointed out by Virgil in the review ep)

PREACH!!

As an AFAB (still identify on the feminine part of the gender spectrum) person who got SA’d on multiple different occasions (5, 7, and 11 years old for the cases where I or the perpetrator weren’t fully clothed, there were other occasions though, but they didn’t really affect me as much) And tend to fear falling in love with people, even if I trust them: Being pregnant is scary in any case, whether you want to keep the pregnancy or not, it’s terrifying.

To any ‘pro lifers’ (more so pro-birth) or people who are confused or uneducated about pregnancy and birth:

•Pregnancy puts the person’s life at risk, and permanently affects the body even after the baby is born.

•non viable pregnancies can be mentally and physically devastating for people involved, and should be aborted for the pregnant person’s safety.

•Non viable pregnancies include: if a newborn is guaranteed to die after birth, stillborns, fetuses with severe defects, the pregnant person definitely not going to survive giving birth (such as children that are pregnant, people with severe health issues, some intersex and trans people, etc), and more

•if abortion was only allowed if the pregnancy was caused by SA/R@pe, many people who were SA’d/R@ped wouldn’t be able to get abortions anyway, because most SA/R@pe cases don’t get reported, aren’t brought to court, are deemed false by court, etc.

•There is a difference between life and personhood. Plants are alive, but don’t have personhood. A human corpse isn’t alive, but has personhood. A fetus is technically alive, but isn’t a person.

•if you think abortion is murder because a fetus has life, then farming is murder, picking mushrooms or roots is murder, taking antibiotics and getting vaccinated would be murder because bacteria and viruses are alive.

•Abortion is healthcare. An established life of a person is more important than a fetus with no personhood or consciousness.

Have some memes for your travels:

the "I believe in abortion only in extreme situations" people (especially women) truly baffle me because I genuinely consider "a human has another human growing inside of them and does not want to" to be a very extreme situation. to me that feels so deeply like an extreme emergency situation. I know this has been said before but it's incredible to me that this does not feel innately horrifying and "extreme" to everyone.

Happy birthday Thomas You and your friends make me feel a lot of things with your works Mostly good feelings with an ocassional bout of sadness. Your work and that of the community of fanders continues to inspire me everyday. Thanks you for everything have a blessfull wonderfull day today. #thomassanders #thomasandersfanart #sandersides #happybirthday #Happybday #virgilsanders #pattonsanders #logansanders #romansanders #art #digitaldrawing #sketch #TS #tsfanart #logic #morality #creativity #anxiety https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpmqDRFQAU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n795yorwd6if

Finally finished this art piece. When I saw the new Ducktales poster I immediately thought I hope someone makes a Sanders sides version of did. And then I was like why not do it myself ? I also based it a bit on the Inside out poster. And this is the perfect day to post it since it’s also the anivirgery (thank you @elliottsonthevirge for the beautifull pun) of someone’s name reveal. @thatsthat24 I loved how you sung to Virgil may he have a peacefull name day.

Okay so this is my first time adding a taglist. And I promise not to spam but I am not sure if everyone on this wants to be tagged since this I could only find a sander sides fic taglist. So please let me know if you want be removed.

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@thatsthat24 I made some fanart. I hope you like it :3. First your vines,music and now your videos always manage to cheer me up. Cause they are relatable funny, surprising and clever at the same time. Thank you for taking the time and energy to make them.

Do you think animals other than humans understand the concept of kinship, is it a great tragedy for the lions when brother turns on brother, or is it simply the fact of the matter

Spoken like a true hero (and ally.) 😌 Point made, loud and strong.

As someone who works a lot with Infernals and some other more “taboo” deities and subjects, I am SO glad to see this. I think we can all learn a thing or two from keeping an open mind.

can ppl stop shitting on demons please

Hell is, like, really, really big. And diverse. There are as many kinds of demons as there are spirits in general.

Not all of them are evil. They don’t all want your soul, or to tempt you, or to deceive you.

JUST LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE OKAY

Love from the future, Blessings from the past and Hope for a day with Peace at last.

My Morality 

Patton Sanders