From: Monkeys' tail or (elkeaapheefteen@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 11:31:34 BST
Steve,
I suggest you take a strawl on MOQ.org and some things will become
clear(er), check out a few essays, like Anthony Mcwatts, scroll the archives
pick out some things you find interesting, good luck'
davor
>From: Steve Peterson <speterson@fast.net>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
>Subject: Re: MD morals
>Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:16:37 -0400
>
> > 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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