From: Steve Peterson (speterson@fast.net)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 00:16:37 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?)
Sorry, Sam and everyone else. I've been simply replying to other e-mails.
I don't know why the subject line doesnąt send. Sometimes I'm using webmail
which might explain it. I'll also try to remember to close with my name.
Thanks for letting be know about my bad form.
> 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
It does, thanks. I don't think this is in my hardback version.
Steve
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