Platt to Andre: True, the MOQ offers a general moral guide, but we have been warned by Pirsig himself not to apply it to specific situations. There's the rub. When it comes to an individual's decisions of what is right or wrong in a given situation, anything goes because of different life histories.
Andre: Hi Platt, yes, it isn't as simple as we'd all hoped for. Was re-reading this passage in ZMM: 'But suppose you do just what you like? Does that mean you're going to go out and shoot heroine, rob banks and rape old ladies'? (p227) and compared this to the passage in Lila (written less than twenty years later): 'What the Metaphysics of Quality indicates is that the twentieth-century intellectual faith in man's basic goodness as spontaneous and natural is disastrously naive'. (p314). We all learn and grow and hopefully in the process become a little wiser. Still plenty of constructive work to be done here on this Discuss, and in our hearts and heads and hands. Need I say more? Regards Andre 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/
