Hi Sriram:
You wrote:
> The statement that it is more moral for an idea to kill a society than for
> a society to kill an idea refers to the fact that intellectual patterns of
> value are morally superior to social patterns of value according to the
> moq. For example, it was immoral for the Catholic clergy and the
> Inquisition to force Galileo to recant his intellectual ideas regarding the
> solar system and earth's place in it. That was a lower form of social
> value devouring a higher form of intellectual value and thus immoral.
> Subsequently, after Galileo's intellectual ideas were adopted by Copernicus
> and others, much of the social patterns of the medieval clergy and
> especially the Inquisition were destroyed, and this was a moral
> development. Similarly, the heresy trials that Hobbes and other early
> Renaissance philosophers were subjected to were immoral attempts of social
> patterns represented by Church and government authorities attempting to
> suppress the intellectual patterns represented by the renaissance
> philosophers. It was these immoral attempts that led to freedom of speech
> rights now taken for granted in most Western democracies to protect
> intellectual patterns from being immorally destroyed by lower level social
> patterns.
Nicely put. What I and others fear is the total lack of free speech in
Islam societies not to mention the lack of religious freedom. Those in
Europe have good reason to be wary of the influx of Muslims who do
not assimilate into the culture of Western values readily.
Platt
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