Platt and Ron -- [Platt]: > Everyone has opinions. I happen to agree with Pirsig's > about the moral superiority of the higher levels over the lower.
[Ron]: > But what does that mean exactly, > given how we just defined superiority, > moral, and reality as the same? [Platt]: > It means exactly that it is more moral for a doctor to > kill a germ than a germ to kill a doctor, and it is more > moral for an idea to kill a society than a society to kill an idea. Here's a question in search of an opinion. Which is more moral? A collectivist society in which no one is free but no one is hungry, or an individualist society in which everyone is free but a few go hungry? (I'll tell you where I got it, and which society the author chose, after I've heard your opinions.) Regards, Ham 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/
