Overall I think this post would benefit from some exploration of what you think people who are disparaging loyalty are implicitly trying to do. Is there an implied strategy there? What sort of world does that strategy build? How is it different from the strategy or strategies with a place for loyalty as a virtue?
This will necessarily involve speculating about others’ covert motives, which is sometimes thought to be impolite, but I think it’s fair to speculate about the motives of the sort of people who level covert plausibly-deniable death threats at you such as “a Hufflepuff among Slytherins will die as surely as among snakes.”
Considering motives is something that might be worth exploring in a higher-effort and more fleshed-out post, which this one is not. I do want to note that the Hufflepuff-Slytherin quote was from someone who I think would consider themselves a Hufflepuff, so read to me as a warning rather than a threat (and also was quoted to me second-hand, so I’m pretty uncertain about exact wording and don’t want to speculate based on it.)
Overall I think this post would benefit from some exploration of what you think people who are disparaging loyalty are implicitly trying to do. Is there an implied strategy there? What sort of world does that strategy build? How is it different from the strategy or strategies with a place for loyalty as a virtue?
This will necessarily involve speculating about others’ covert motives, which is sometimes thought to be impolite, but I think it’s fair to speculate about the motives of the sort of people who level covert plausibly-deniable death threats at you such as “a Hufflepuff among Slytherins will die as surely as among snakes.”
Considering motives is something that might be worth exploring in a higher-effort and more fleshed-out post, which this one is not. I do want to note that the Hufflepuff-Slytherin quote was from someone who I think would consider themselves a Hufflepuff, so read to me as a warning rather than a threat (and also was quoted to me second-hand, so I’m pretty uncertain about exact wording and don’t want to speculate based on it.)
In case it matters, the original quote was “vampires”, not snakes.