Hi Gerhard,
I'm not sure how long have you been reading the forum. In May through June there has
been plenty of posts on the issues that you seem to be wondering about (I'm referring
to the second half of your post, i.e., economics and intellect). This discussion is
actually what inspired Rog to post the link to the "political quiz".
For what concerns the first half of your question, about "biological" pleasures, I'm
not sure they are only biological, but that is an interesting question, especially for
the "intellect vs society" thread. Of course society needs to control biological
pleasures when they are socially dangerous or downright unacceptable. The standard MOQ
position should be, on the other hand, that it should not control intellectual behavior
(there's a thread running on this topic). This nevertheless raises a problem:
- who gets to decide what has intellectual value and what has "only" biological value?
For example, a society may ban drugs and some thinkers may think there's most than
just fun to drugs, i.e., that there is an intellectual "something" about them, or a
"spiritual" something, where spiritual might be thought of as above intellect, by
some. (I'm not necessarily in that camp, just arguing).
--
Andrea Sosio
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