Hello everybody,
ERIN
> Okay so the MoQ protects the source that has the idea but it doesn't allow
all ideas to be tested in "test of time". The MoQ then seems to very
unpragmatic if it doesn't allow ideas to be tested against other ideas.
RICK
Doesn't allow? All ideas are tested in real-time whether the MOQ likes it
or not, and all moral reasoning is limited by foresight. But remember, the
MOQ is a value centered EVOLUTIONARY morality. That is, morality is
ultimately determined by its effects on evolution. Therefore, the MOQ can't
ultimately pronounce on the morality of any given event until after the
event's effect on evolution is revealed. But by exposing the evolutionary
structure of morality the MOQ provides a better framework with which to
analyze moral issues than previously existed (assuming, of course, that one
agrees with Pirsig's notions of morality and believes the MOQ to be a
coherent system). Using that framework would help us make better guesses at
what things will be moral and what things won't.
ERIN:
I hear ya. I guess why I said that is because I have been thinking about the
pros and cons of our goal of a MoQ based global society. It seems like the
global society is more pragmatic now. Each culture is doing different things
and it is only with time we see what works and what doesn't work. It seems
creating a MoQ global society it would lose this pragmatism in the sense that
we would predict on moral foresight what would be good, with every culture
accepting MoQ okay ideas and rejecting MoQ not okay ideas.
I like the unity the global society brings but I can't tell whether having one
set of rules will really be good.
have a good weekend,
Erin
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