From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 22:14:48 BST
Hi speterson (I couldn't dig out what your first name was - and how come you
send out messages without a subject line, especially one with MD something
or other in it?)
You asked (originally):
> I'm new to the list so please excuse my ignorance, but does
> this MOQ actually clear up moral issues such as capital
> punishment, human cloning, abortion, etc, or is it more of a
> lens through which to view such issues that offers a
> perspective of biological, social, and intellectual
> interplay?
In his introduction to Lila's Child, Pirsig writes:
After reading through these and many other comments, I've concluded that the
biggest improvement I could make in the MOQ would be to block the notion
that the MOQ claims to be a quick fix for every moral problem in the
universe. I have never seen it that way. The image in my mind as I wrote it
was of a large football field that gave meaning to the game by telling you
who was on the 20-yard line but did not decide which team would win. That
was the point of the two opposing arguments over the death penalty described
in Lila. That was the point of the equilibrium between static and Dynamic
Quality. Both are moral arguments. Both can claim the MOQ for support. Just
as two sides can go before the U.S. Supreme Court and both claim
constitutionality, so two sides can use the MOQ, but that does not mean that
either the Constitution or the MOQ is a meaningless set of ideas. Our whole
judicial system rests on the presumption that more than one set of
conclusions about individual cases can be drawn within a given set of moral
rules. The MOQ makes the same presumption.
Hopefully that should help.
Sam
www.elizaphanian.v-2-1.net/home.html
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> I'm new to the list so please excuse my ignorance, but does
> this MOQ actually clear up moral issues such as capital
> punishment, human cloning, abortion, etc, or is it more of a
> lens through which to view such issues that offers a
> perspective of biological, social, and intellectual
> interplay?
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