Steve, You touch on a very important point, in MoQ, the term morality takes on a different meaning, it's not a guide to distinguish right from wrong or even the common understanding of betterness, but the understanding of tendancies toward certain types static patterns and their relationships.
-Ron ________________________________ From: Steve Peterson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:37:58 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Morality, Abortion and the MoQ Hi All, The MOQ takes an evolutionary view, which means that besides the "line drawing" problem in fetal development for defining humanity leading the absolutists to draw the line the only place they can, at the moment of conception, there is also the problem of deciding at what point in human evolution do we draw the line and say, "from this point forward all descendants are human." Obviously, there is no analogous "moment of conception" for making the distinction between human and non-human in biological evolutionary terms. Do you see the problem here? Anti-abortionism is about protecting specifically human life, not just any life, but there is no such thing as humanity from the evolutionary perspective unless you buy into Adam and Eve or some other distinct first humans from which all others descend. Humanity itself is distinguished only by an arbitrary line that modern humans decide to draw at some point in evolutionary history. Best, Steve 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/ 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/
