[DMB] > I'd echo what Krimel said. It seems pretty clear to me that Bo's attitude > is "overtly anti-Semitic", a form of "cultural chauvinism one expects to > hear from Platt and Ham".
[Platt] "Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life." (Lila, 24) [Krimel] So let's imagine that during the Cold War an especially large flock of geese attracted NORAD's attention and seeing them as incoming missiles we launched our nukes on the Russians. They launched their on us. Now all of the first world is smoke and ash and the only surviving humans are a cannibal tribe in New Guinea. As they will hence forth be making the only contribution to the evolution of life you and Pirsig would deem them morally superior? After all, we in all our moral uprightness not only planned how to destroy life we would have accomplished it. Should I forward this to Arlo? He's been waiting a long time for something like this. But we don't even have to go that far. If cultures can be graded on their contribution to the evolution of life shouldn't they be condemned for driving species into extinction? Doesn't the death of an entire species reduce future options, perhaps even the possibility of the evolution of life? Who has killed off more species than we have? If this is the criteria wouldn't the Muslims get a better grade on the Final Exam than us? Sometimes, Platt, your moral compass spins in odd directions. 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/
