[Platt] I think it suggests that it would be wrong to completely eliminate suffering.
[Arlo] Suffering is always more acceptable when it is happening to someone else. I've always had a problem with the imprecision of Pirsig's words you quoted. I certainly agree that in order to know love we must know loss, in order to feel joy we must also feel sadness. But a blanket statement about "suffering" being necessary for species to evolve leaves me wondering about the role of medicine and treating, or abolishing, diseases. Should a cancer patient not be given drugs or treatment to stop his/her suffering? Should we not seek to improve the ergonomics of our chairs so as to eliminate the suffering of sitting for long periods of time at work? So I just think we need to be a little more precise about what forms of suffering we don't want to eliminate or ease, or what forms (e.g. leprosy) we may want to eliminate. 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/
