----- Original Message -----
From: "dkm" <dkmnow@tidepool.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 21 January 2001 09:21
Subject: Re: MD wudeness
> Peter,
> Please, be assured--YOU ARE NOT PARANOID.
>
I know, that was my point: they really are out to get me! - no seriously,
having excluded extreme subjective bias, I AM left with the conclusion that
Struan is deliberately rude. And i am left with the same question: why? -
why does someone feel the need to win at all costs, or (on the other hand)
feel that the cost is negligible, if by cost we mean "hurting others" (in a
psychological sense). Why do people bully?
There's no doubt that people do it a lot, and there's equally no doubt that
the perpetrators don't feel that their actions are as serious as do the
perpetratees (can you say that?); so it comes down to some kind of
subjective difference, with the bully perhaps suffering from some sort of
processing deficit. In fact, it's just this sort of deficit that the notion
of morals is supposed to deal with, so it's somewhat ironic that that is
Struan's field. On the other hand, I've a notion that, certainly last
century, people who were interested in morals, were interested more in
telling people what to do than any notion of objective morals; I've always
been deeply suspicious of people who specialise in morals, actually. it
often means they have poor instinctive mechanisms for dealing with others.
i've a notion that Pirsig had this problem, too?
cheers
ppl
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