Quoting Ham Priday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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.)
A trick question no doubt but I'll bite. Give me the individualist society as more moral. 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/
