[John] > Society is comprised of individuals COLLECTIVELY relating with > one another and their common environment
I think the "COLLECTIVELY" part of this statement misleadingly obscures the difference between cases where there is collective intention to act vs. where there isn't. For instance take the "housing market" in an Amish community: there everyone goes to Farmer Brown's barn raising, then to Farmer Smith's, and so on. That is COLLECTIVE action. Outside of the Amish, there's not. [John] > the morality of a society reflects the individual values shared by the > members AND the consensus reached will be that which reflects their > congruence with that common environment. This sounds like the myth of the noble savage. There may be "values shared by the members", but also NOT shared by other members. And not only might there be no consensus, there might not even be a dominant value. Craig 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/md/archives.html
