Rick wrote:
> Gene-
>> "But, total number of people (Intellectual SpoVs) throughout Asia, US, and
>>former USSR who benefited from the drop highly exceeds the number of
>>victims thus making overall good outcome."
>This sounds a little utilitarian for my tastes. Claiming the the MoQ
>endorses whatever creates the most "good" for the greatest number of people
>doesn't make it sound like a moral order at all, it sounds almost like
>support for Mob Mentality.
>Not mention that people are not IntPoV, they
>are Biological Patterns of value and therefore destroying a society to
>preserve them is hence immoral, unless there is some intellectual priniple
>at stake as well
Sorry for being simplistic. MOQ values IntPoV over all other SPoV and it, IMHO, endorses the most good for the highest level of SPoV - Intellectual. Unfortunately, mentality of today's Mob (at least here in US and in Russia) is far from IntSPoV it consists mostly of SocialSPoV and BioSPoV, so I did not mean to support it over the IntSPoV. I agree, people are juxtapositions of SPoVs of every level, not just BioSPoV. While totaling good of the bomb I only mentioned IntPoV to emphasize their precedence over the intolerant chauvinistic SocialSPoV which started the war stopped by the A-bombs.
US A-bombs did not destroy the Japanese society, on the contrary, it (Japanese society) showed miraculous ability to benefit from the short US occupation. Which probably is a testimony to the fact that the society was ready to change.
Gene.
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