>----- 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
Peter,
Without reference to anyone in particular, I will be responding to these
points and questions (thank you!) for the sake of the central issue itself
(the possible nature and causes of antisocial, territorial, and other
maladaptive behavior, both at the cultural level and that of individual
emotional development.) as I beleive it is crucial to the realism of our
self-percept, and thus our ability to coexist ethically with the rest of
the universe.
I am afraid, however, that this will take me some time.
Best,
Riff
(dkm)
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