At 10:29 AM 8/20/2007, you wrote: >Quoting MarshaV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Platt, > > > > Okay, you are interpreting RMP as suggesting there should be greater > > enforcement of criminal laws and an increased disciplining of the > > youth, to deter violence and out-of-wedlock births, "by means of > > prisons and guns and police and the military". And you agree with > > this suggestion. Right? > >No. Enforcement of criminal laws "by means . . ." etc. Obviously you don't >discipline kids and stop out-of-wedlock births with guns. As you said, >education is key, along with nonviolent pressures, to increase the strength >of social values. > > > Do you think there is anything else that might be done to decrease > > violence and out-of-wedlock births? > >As said at the outset, the establishment must be convinced of Pirsig's >analysis of the problems for change to occur. We are doing our small >part here, >but it's a long, hard road. > >Platt
Platt, I think I'm a philosophical anarchist with a big emphasis on the individual. At least I am leaning in that direction (at the moment, anyway). I don't trust "social values" or public authority. But I do believe strongly in education. Marsha Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
