From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Sep 04 2004 - 14:33:57 BST
Arlo,
> I also disagree with the assumption that's been advanced in the dialogue;
> that one must support either the "individual" or the "collective", and have
> a philosophy that values one above the other. To propose so may serve
> political interests, but not much else.
Except without the individual there would be no response to DQ, nor would
there be any intellectual values since the individual is their source.
"Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought too.
A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral
precedence over a society. Ideas are patterns of value. They are at a
higher level of evolution than social patterns of value. Just as it is
more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than a patient, so it is more moral
for an idea to kill a society than it is for a society to kill an idea.
And beyond that is an even more compelling reason; societies and thoughts
and principles themselves are no more than sets of static patterns. These
patterns can't by themselves perceive or adjust to Dynamic Quality. Only a
living being can do that." (Lila, 13)
Platt
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