Hey Rod,
ROD
> We cannot all be of equal value to society, harsh but true...
RICK
But in the MOQ morality depends on a given event/individual's effect on
evolution. Foresight is too limited to allow us to know for sure who will
and won't be evolutionarily valuable... that's for the historians. The best
we can do in advance is guess...
ROD
> How we identify those patterns of higher value is key.
>
> A) Patterns which are of greater service to the progress of society must
be
> of higher value than patterns which only serve the individual.
RICK
The Intellectual level prescribes laws that foster Freedom of speech, habeas
corpus, freedom of travel and assembly, etc... these are patterns that
serve Intellectual ends at the expense of social 'order'... And they are the
ones that Pirsig describes as the most moral. I think you're 'rule' would
be better to say "Social patterns that serve both Intellect and Society are
of higher value than Social patterns which only serve Society"... that's the
MOQ. Of course, figuring out which ones will and won't serve Intellect is
the whole trick.
rick
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