[Platt] Apparently from the vantage point of the inorganic and biological levels their patterns can do no wrong. Is that true for the higher levels as well?
[Arlo] Can you think of any activity that is 'immoral" or "wrong" that is so not because of a level conflict? Are you suggesting there can be an "immoral biological pattern of values"? [Platt] Doesn't Pirsig suggest there's also a scale of morality within a level? [Arlo] Pirsig brings "man" into the equation (man eating beef versus lettuce), and I think confuses the issue. Consider this, is it "immoral" for a bear to eat a fish when it could be eating berries? I think in Pirsig's example, "man" makes the issue about an intellectual awareness of the MOQ versus biological satiation of hunger. Because man "knows" that fish are more evolved than berries, it would be immoral for him to eat the fish when berries are bountiful. As such, I think this pulls the issue back into a conflict of levels issue, and not something that is an "immoral pattern within any particular level". 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/
