From: Steve Peterson (speterson@fast.net)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 03:07:21 BST
Wim writes:
> Martin Luther King wrote quite some time ago (translated the Dutch):
> 'Light or darkness
> Darkness can't drive out darkness. Only light can.
> Hate can't drive out hate. Only love can.
> Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence and viciousness
> multiplies viciousness in a downward spiral of destruction.
> The chain of evil: hate generating hate and wars generating new wars has to
> be broken. Or we throw ourselves in the darkness of ruin.'
Steve:
What a great quote.
I've started and erased this e-mail about six times now because I can't
figure out how to word what I want to ask. Can someone please read my mind?
I'm interested in the issue of violence as I know Darrel is too. It seems
to have low quality.
I guess I'm thinking that a rejection of all violence could be a response to
dynamic quality that cannot actually work in society as it currently is.
Doesn't moq reject such static moral rules as saying all violence is wrong?
I recognize what King is saying as motivating high quality behavior and
motivated by DQ, and if everyone agreed that would be great, but what if...
When I say "work in society" I guess I am taking a utilitarian view. Is moq
utilitarian, deontological, or none of the above? I'm assuming none of the
above, but can someone contrast moq with these classical understandings of
morality?
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