Platt > > Robbery is a biological pattern. >
What !?! Nice try Platt to roll that into a passage of Pirsig's words, but it precedes the quotation marks. (Nasty dishonest trick by the way.) Anyway, robbery is social, presuming a society that has adopted the concept of property rights. If a rat "robs" an egg from a bird's nest - that's biological, but the word "rob" is chosen by a member of human society, not by the rat or the bird. The rat is simply "taking" the egg in order to live. The rat is the bad guy thanks to human metaphors only. Robbers in human society have a wide range of possible biological, social and, dare I say, intellectual reasons to do so, but mostly social. Ian 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/
