From: Erin Noonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 16:56:47 BST
>===== Original Message From moq_discuss@moq.org =====
>On 21 Oct 2002 at 20:21, Erin Noonan wrote:
>
>> HORSE: So I would ask, in view of the above, why is making a moral
judgement
>> wrong and is there anything other than experience, in one form or another,
>> that enables us to make these judgements.
>>
>>
>> Substitute at the Pearly Gates
>
><SNIP>
>
>So doesn't this justify what I said in my previous post:
>
>On 22 Oct 2002 at 0:07, Horse wrote:
>
>I agree that making judgements of others based purely on social value would
be
>extremely limited and superficial but it is one (initial) part of the process
of
>understanding others and judging them. To make this the whole basis of
judgement
>would be foolish. When our experience of others includes intellectual
interction as well
>then we have a broader basis from which to judge.
>
>
>From your example the initial reaction/judgement is superficial. When a
process of
>interaction is started a path to a better understanding may be made and a
better moral
>judgement reached.
>Judgements made purely from a social point of view such as your example would
be, as
>I said, extremely limited and superficial but necessary nonetheless as a
starting point.
>Otherwise how do we proceed?
>
>
>Horse
>
Okay somebody (can't remember who) said something about discrimination.
It may just semantic shmantics but this works better for me.
For me judging seems to bring to mind gulity/not guilty, good/bad etc.
This is the part I don't like. Part of the MOQ is that everything that
exists has value.
To discriminate is a different story. I can discriminate between a chair and
a bunny and what kind of value each has etc...
but for you to discriminate it, you have to percieve it, and for that then it
does have value.
So again I don't have a problem with discrimination or reconginizing the
degree
of quality but the word *judging* in my mind sets up this dichotomy that the
MOQ and Jesus do not.
It's all good,
erin
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