#ethicalframeworks

as a dron writer, i’ve never felt the need to explain romione’s failure in depth. most of the time, it’s cleaner to treat the split as a given:

•    the story isn’t about romione

• overexplaining risks bashing the canon love interest

but romione writers have challenged me to ask why they’d break up, and what that rupture might mean for ron’s arc moving forward.

so here’s where i landed:

hermione: principled, radical, uncompromising

hermione enters the post-war era believing shacklebolt’s government will fix everything—creature rights, ministry reform, accountability for collaborators. but when change stalls, she’s radicalized.

•    she’s a muggleborn who’s endured hogwarts’ casual bigotry, the apathy that met her fight for creature rights, and the institutional violence of the registration commission.

•    she refuses to work within corrupt systems, choosing instead to become a solicitor and push for change from the outside

•    her ethics are principled, urgent, and shaped by lived trauma

she expects ron to feel the same. when he doesn’t, it feels like betrayal.

ron: relational, loyal, pragmatic

ron sees the same rot hermione does—but he draws a different conclusion.

•    his ethics are relational, not ideological

•    he believes institutions are flawed, but abandoning them only hands power to worse actors

•    his loyalty leads him to stay—not to endorse the ministry’s failures, but to help steer it toward something better

ron’s realism and desire for post-war stability make him sympathetic but ultimately incompatible with hermione’s radicalism.

why romione fails

they don’t stop loving each other. they just stop being able to walk the same path.

•    hermione demands a partner who will burn with her

•    ron offers one who will rebuild

both are ethical. both are right. but they can’t bend without breaking something essential in themselves.

why dron works

draco’s realism is born from terror. he was conscripted into voldemort’s regime as a teenager—tasked with murder, branded with the dark mark, and forced to watch his home become a prison and execution chamber.

•    he doesn’t want revolution—he wants survival

•    he believes someone will always hold power, and hopes it’s someone decent

•    ron’s quiet stewardship, his belief that institutions can be redeemed from within, feels safe to draco

Masid Danas

In our everyday choices we need to examine the framework we use in order to make choices. By default most of us result to utilitarianism without realizing it based on my personal experiences. To others maximizing the benefit without regards to the rights of another person is enough to call themselves ethical. 

Suri Nilay

In life there are multiple frameworks for ethics and what can be the basis of a decision. Some of these are utilitarianism, principle based ethics and virtue ethics. Utilitarianism is considered as the consequence approach, in which the ends justifies the means. One common goal of this philosophy is that the good of everyone should be maximized. A limitation is that this tends to sacrifice the rights of individuals because the ends justifies the means, the good of many outweighs the rights of a few. In general this functions on he principle of net good produced by decisions. Principle based ethics consider human rights as well as avoiding sacrificing few for the good of many. Hence, the ends does not justify the means if it results in the violation of the rights of the few. We as humans have rights that should be respected and considered in this perspective. Virtue ethics considers the individuality of a person in his or her choices in decision making using these frameworks. 

Taya Kilos