Ummmm.....Wasn't me. (see below)
Shalom
David Lind
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Platt Holden wrote:
> Hi David L. and Group:
>
> David, your critique of the MOQ based on a reductio ad absurdum
> argument just won�t wash. (I assume your �drop acid� scenario was
> meant to demonstrate the falseness of the MOQ through ridicule.)
>
> According to the MOQ, the reigning moral code during war is kill or
> be killed, i.e., the Code of the Jungle.
>
> Truman�s decision to drop the atom bomb was literally a no brainer.
> There was nothing intellectual or �mystic� about it. Morally the
> decision didn�t have to go any higher than the social-biological level.
>
> Pirsig makes this clear in Lila, Chapter 24. To quote just one
> relevant section:
>
> �The idea that biological crimes can be ended by intellect alone,
> that you can talk crime to death, doesn't work. Intellectual patterns
> cannot directly control biological patterns. Only social patterns can
> control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation
> between society and biology is not words. The instrument of
> conversation between society and biology has always been a
> policeman or a soldier and his gun.�
>
> Or an atom bomb.
>
> You may not agree with Pirsig�s analysis of how the world works.
> But my reading of Chapter 24 says he has no moral qualms about
> killing those who are out to kill him.
>
> Me neither.
>
> Platt
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