Hi All
On 29 Jun 2001, at 15:42, Platt Holden wrote:
> "Of all the contributions America has made to the history of the world,
> the idea of freedom from a social hierarchy has been the greatest. It
> was fought for in the American Revolution and confirmed in the Civil
> War."
And then threw it in the bin by allowing a handful of judges to determine the will of the
American people.
Have you also forgotten the support and assistance that was provided by many Europeans?
Platt, some time back you criticized the use of the Ad Hominem argument but now seem to
be using it in response to both Andrea and Marco. It seems to me that there is a difference
between the hypocrisy of Rigel (which is, after all the point Pirsig was making about cost-free
morals) and the beliefs of Marco and Andrea.
Does Pirsig eating meat destroy the validity of this:
"A popular moral issue that parallels the germ-patient issue is vegetarianism. Is it immoral,
as the Hindus and Buddhists claim, to eat the flesh of animals? Our current morality would
say it’s immoral only if you’re a Hindu or Buddhist. Otherwise it’s okay, since morality is
nothing more than a social convention.
An evolutionary morality, on the other hand, would say it’s scientifically immoral for everyone
because animals are at a higher level of evolution, that is, more Dynamic, than are grains
and fruits and vegetables. But the moral force of this injunction is not so great because the
levels of evolution are closer together than the doctor’s patient and the germ. It would add,
also, that this moral principle holds only where there is an abundance of grains and fruits and
vegetables. It would be immoral for Hindus not to eat their cows in a time of famine, since
they would then be killing human beings in favor of a lower organism."
and hence the evolutionary morality of the MoQ?
I think not.
Horse
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