Posted by Dinah on July 11, 2007, at 9:28:59
In reply to The darker side of love, posted by Sigismund on July 11, 2007, at 2:42:07
I don't think I've formulated anything terribly profound. Just that there seems to be a naive importance attached to the power of love in the books, to my less optimistic eyes.
It just seems to me that even the purest most self sacrificing true love in one of those Greek definitions of the word is not a universal force for good. Sometimes great wrongs can be done in the spirit of love. And I suppose I wonder at the lack of balance on the topic when in general the books are fairly balanced in describing the potential for good and evil in any great power.
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