From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 22:57:19 GMT
Hi Sam, Chin, All:
> Chin - thanks for an intriguing post, which quoted one of my favourite
> lines from ZMM: "My personal feeling is that this is how any further
> improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality
> decisions and that's all."
Sam
> I think this is the answer to Platt's question: "What source of morality
> should [the nation] rely on until the MOQ is as widely known and believed
> as religious moral teaching?" and it lies behind what Platt quotes from RMP
> ""To put philosophy in the service of any social organization or any dogma
> is immoral. It's a lower form of evolution trying to devour a higher one."
>
> In other words, the individual choosing Quality *cannot* be driven by any
> coherent body of teaching - including the MoQ - the decision has to be
> autonomous, else there is no DQ, therefore no 'further improvement'.
>
> (Thing is, if the individual has this central a place in the application of
> the MoQ, shouldn't the MoQ have some means of describing or fostering such
> behaviour? Or is it beyond it (by definition)?)
I think you guys are on to something important, but as yet I haven't been
able to flesh it out as the basis for a viable social level morality.
Sam's question is an example of many questions that arise from the idea
that we can rely on "individuals making quality decisions" to maintain
social cohesion.
I hope others will focus their considerable brainpower (or response to DQ
power) on explaining how an "individual quality decision" moral base might
possibly overcome "do your own thing" and "feel good" objections, just for
starters.
Thanks,
Platt
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