Re: MD Failure of the Enlightenment

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 14:13:45 BST


Hi Andre:

>> Platt:
> > Yes, let's discuss. Start off with Pirsig's
> > statement that "Intellectuals
> > must find biological behavior, no matter what is
> > ethnic connection, and
> > limit or destroy biological patterns with complete
> > moral ruthlessness,
> > the way a doctor destroys germs, before those
> > biological patterns
> > destroy civilization itself." Do you agree? I
> > certainly do.
> >
>
> Especially greed - a billion dollars is a lot of
> doritos for one man.

Do you believe it is moral to destroy billionaires like a doctor destroys
germs? Do you think society should put a limit on the amount of money
an individual may earn? How do you connect an inordinate desire for
wealth, the meaning of "greed," to biological behavior?

Platt
    

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