On 28 Aug 2009 at 7:50, John Carl wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Happily, however, when it comes to > > > > valuation, you both place the individual (intellectual pattern) above the > > collective (social pattern). > > > Platt, > > Isn't a "collective" simply a quantity of individuals? How can a single > individual intellectual person be valued above a collection of intellects?
[Platt] There's no such thing as a collection of intellects or a collective intellect. Your intellect like your life is yours and yours alone. (See quote from Pirsig's SODV about individual values.) If you wish to persist in believing a collection of intellects exists, then you must also see that history is full of examples were a majority of intellects has been wrong. (See Chapters 22 and 24 of Lila.) > I mean, we all wept when Spock volunteered to die so that his shipmates > would be saved, but we also recognized the truth when he calmly reiterated > Kirk, "The good of the many outweigh the good of the one." If you think that's true, you are one step away from tyranny where the tyrant or a tyranny of the majority decides what is "the good of the many." I hope under those circumstances that the decision to sacrifice someone for the "greater good" isn't you. Platt 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/
