Re: MD MOQ and The Problem Of Evil

From: Chris Phoenix (cphoenix@CRNano.org)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 23:49:17 BST

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    David Morey wrote:

    > (P1) QUALITY is Moral Perfection
    > (P2) QUALITY contains DQ and SQ
    > (P3) SQ attempts to dominate DQ

    Society, especially Western society, attempts to dominate DQ. Aside
    from that, I'm not sure DQ is dominated so much as channeled.

    > (P4) Such attempts are immoral
    >
    > DQ contains all possibilities

    SQ creates foundations for the DQ possibilities. Quarks and proteins
    can't take much credit for Beethoven. Maxwell's equations can take even
    less credit. SQ is what creates the subtle interactions that lead to
    new spaces of possibility. To say that DQ contains the possibility that
    our biosphere breathes chlorine instead of oxygen isn't much better than
    saying that DQ contains the possibility of pigs flying to 10,000 feet.

    > SQ is a finite subset of DQ

    SQ fills (some unknowable fraction of) the space/potential created by
    DQ. Neither is a subset of the other.

    Chris

    > Value determines the subset
    > DQ finds that sticking to its values
    > that there is a price to pay: conflict & contradiction.
    > The only hope for DQ is to find its way round these problems.
    >
    > DM
    > 

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