Sure, one of my favorite bits of worldbuilding is how only the Killing Curse is Unforgivable and burning/slashing/maiming is not
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Bc only actual death is irreversible w magic healing. You can teleport all of someone's bones out of their body and they'll be fine tomorrow
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Even then though Crucio and Imperio are, in-universe, also Unforgivable bc they fundamentally violate another human being
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And the good guys spend Book 7 Imperiusing all over the place, and Harry even uses Crucio because he's just so very mad
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It's like Rowling herself only treats Avada Kedavra as TRULY Unforgivable, which is opposite priorities than the Geneva Conventiona
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The Geneva Conventions are kind of self-serving though. They exist to prop up Great Powers. Any moral standing is incidental.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
I mean sure but I'm not sure even outside of that ppl would agree killing is always more evil than torture
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Avada Kedavra is just a gun that always works (trained gun users are always trained to "shoot to kill" if they shoot at all)
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And in fact aside from being unblockable and irreversible it's also explicitly instant, painless death
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(Which the Conventions agree are preferable to any weapon "designed to wound")
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I guess what that says is just that in Muggle morality life is cheaper than for wizards
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We don't live as long, there are waaaay more of us, and we have far fewer reliable nonlethal tools for overcoming/restraining/neutralizing
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