From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 17:11:24 BST
Hi Darrell:
> I really do hope you are merely playing the devils advocate here. What is
> the difference between my saying to shoot someone out of anger is an act of
> violence or to identify the act of judging others is an act of violence?
> I'm certainly not guilty of the violent act of shooting someone nor am I
> guilty of the violent act of judging someone.
I agree you are not guilty of shooting someone, but you are certainly
guilty of judging anyone who negatively judges someone.
As for making a moral equivalence between shooting and judging, all I
can say if your view became universal, we'd all be behind bars, including
the jury who put us behind bars. Surely you realize that to judge others
is to be human. As Pirsig writes in Lila:
"Lila is a judge. That's who lay here beside him tonight: a judge of
hundreds of millions of years standing, and in the eyes of this judge he
was nobody very important Almost anyone would do, and most would
do better than he."
Further, making judgments is the foundation of the Metaphysics of
Quality. From Chap. 12:
"The Metaphysics of Quality says that if moral judgments are
essentially assertions of value and if value is the fundamental ground-
stuff of the world, then moral judgments are the fundamental ground-stuff
of the world."
If you're opposed to making judgments, I wonder why you bother with
this site which is devoted to a metaphysics of judging. Where have I
gone wrong in interpreting your statements?
Platt
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