From: Adam Watt (adamwatt@mac.com)
Date: Sat Mar 26 2005 - 19:40:08 GMT
Will Jeb step in and save the day? I wouldn't bet against it.
What a farce. Media fed idiots on a hypocritical crusade.
It's like an episode of South Park, only less intelligent.
On Saturday, March 26, 2005, at 04:14 pm, Platt Holden wrote:
> All:
>
> Was looking for something else in Pirsig's notes to Lila's Child and
> come
> across this prescient passage:
>
> "I think the MOQ would say that society has a moral right to control
> biology. The danger is in that in controlling biology society creates
> customs that injure society itself. Clearly the cost of caring for
> biologically defective people is a burden on society, but the question
> is,
> if society sanctions the murder of a defective fetus, what other kinds
> of
> murder is it going to sanction? Think of the money that could be saved
> by
> executing all criminals, all mentally ill people, all people with and
> IQ
> below 100, all old people, all people with poor DNA patterns, all
> people
> who can do 40 pushups, and so on. The question is -- where do you cut
> it
> off? I personally am pro-choice, but I understand the moral integrity
> of
> those who are not. It is a matter for society through its mechanisms of
> politics to decide and keep deciding as it evolves toward a better
> world."
>
> It appears Pirsig would approve of Congress getting involved in the
> Schiavo case despite the argument of some that the decision to remove
> her
> feeding tube ought to be restricted to the law as interpreted by the
> courts. In any case, Pirsig cautions against using the MOQ as the basis
> for arriving at cut and dried answers to the moral questions involved
> in
> this case, not that anyone has proposed such to date.
>
> Platt
>
>
>
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