Quoting Steven Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Platt, > > >> Platt said: > >> >> Is it moral for politicians to promise benefits using other people's > >> >> money? > >> >> > >> >> Seem to me that's a social pattern attempting to devour an intellectual > >> >> pattern and thus immoral. > > >> > >> Steve: > >> Can you explain why this is an example of a social pattern attempting to > >> devour > an > >> intellectual pattern? > > > Platt: > >The intellectual pattern values our personal freedom from social value > >coercion > >as exemplified by Pirsig's citing intellect as the moral basis for the values > of > >free speech, freedom of the press and trial by jury. (Lila, 13) > > Steve: > I agree that it is the higher position of the intellectual level relative to > the > social level that justifies the morality of free speech, freedom of the > press, and > trial by jury. These protect ideas from social control. > > I should have been more specific. What is the intellectual pattern that is > being > devoured by what social pattern?
The freedom to enjoy the fruits of your own labor being devoured by a law requiring you to pay for benefits to others to whom you owe no duty. Regards, Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
