From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 16:36:18 BST
Hi Steve:
> Steve:
> I wonder if I'm using the term "morally superior" correctly. Part of what
> I mean when I say that a man is morally superior to a dog is that it is
> more wrong for someone to intentionally do harm to, enslave, kill, eat,
> etc. a man than it is to do the same to a dog.
>
> Are you saying that some people are morally superior to others in this
> sense only in a capacity for moral behavior?
Not sure I understand your question. If it is simply whether some people
are morally superior to others, the answer is clearly "Yes." For
example, the police are morally superior to the gunman engaged in
wanton killing around Washington, D.C. Pirsig doesn't hesitate to make
moral judgments about individuals or groups based on a rational, moral
order that he claims is as real as a bullet to the head. I agree.
Platt
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