> [Krimel] > Yes, most certainly! > > Western law is our business. > Muslim law is theirs.
[Platt] Interesting. What is the moral principle behind ours and theirs? Right of sovereignty? Privacy? Would it have been immoral for us to have interfered with the Holocaust? [Krimel] We and they have evolved differing sets of moral expression to maintain our cultures and to pass them on to our children. These separate moral codes evolved under different conditions. They are different but both seem to be effective. I don't think we did intervene to end the Holocaust. We intervened because our friends and eventually our navy were attacked. Should we have intervened in Cambodia, Uganda, Rwanda? I would say that according to OUR moral code we should offer assistance when we are asked to do so. In fact according to our own moral code we should be doing far far more to feed the starving, cure the sick and educate the illiterate at home and abroad. > >[Krimel] > > From the stand point of evolution diversity is in some sense THE highest > > good. It represents freedom and a broader range of options. When > > circumstances undergo change diversity of options is often the > > difference between existence continuing and existence ending. [Platt] Like jailing the teacher who allowed her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed? Was not her expression of freedom and that of her class repressed? [Krimel] Perhaps Muslims believe that tolerance for blasphemy is a greater threat to the fabric of their society than freedom of speech. Rather like the Christian Right's stand on pornography or the Bush administration's view of civil liberties in general. [Krimel] > It is also a good argument for protecting endangered > species and preserving natural environments. [Platt] Cutting down a tree violates the tree's freedom? Seems you can carry this a bit too far. [Krimel] Cutting down a tree is a far cry from wholesale destruction of habitats. Among the most horrifying images in "An Inconvenient Truth" was the satellite view of the earth at night. In the northern hemisphere we saw city lights; in the southern hemisphere there was a belt of glowing red; the earth's lungs burning. 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/
