From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:18:28 GMT
Hi Kevin:
> I think Buff did a very fine job of illustrating just how careful we
> must be when using the MOQ to sort through exactly these kinds of swampy
> ethical situations. It's much more complex than you would like to paint it.
> The MOQ is a method of sorting out the grays of ethics. If everything were
> black & white, we wouldn't need the MOQ.
Please show how the MoQ sorts out the "grays of ethics" in Chap. 24 of
Lila. It appears to me that Pirsig makes many black & white moral
judgments based on the MoQ. You may want to pay special attention to
the part where Pirsig says that sympathy towards criminals and
lawlessness is "really stupid."
You may be right, he may be wrong, but I think I'm closer to reflecting
the MoQ position regarding terrorists than you or Buff who seem to be
suffering from what Pirsig calls intellectual moral "paralysis." While you
agonize over the ifs, ands and buts of the ethical situation, terrorists
target innocent civilians to kill by crashing planes into buildings and
setting off explosives. That is just plain, unmitigated evil for which no
rationalization, no justification, no excuse is possible in a civilized world.
I'm thankful that the MoQ doesn't shrink from identifying and
condemning evil biological behavior.
Platt
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