From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun May 15 2005 - 15:05:20 BST
DMB writes::
> I like fairness much better than unfairness. I have a hard time
> understanding people who fell otherwise. What kind of person objects to
> fairness? Don't we all, from the time we are toddlers, know the feeling of
> outrage that occurs when confronted with unfairness? Isn't that something
> we all know intimately and constantly? I don't understand the attitude that
> would mock the "bleeding hearts" or endorse social Darwinism. I think these
> people had brutal fathers or something. I'm going to go way out on a limb
> here and say that fairness is a good thing and anyone who is against it is
> one sick puppy.
A living, breathing, technicolor example of a social static pattern
generated from biological "feelings." Pirsig describes it beautifully:
"Static quality, the moral force of the priests, emerges in the wake of
Dynamic Quality. It is old and complex. It always contains a component of
memory. Good is conformity to an established pattern of fixed values and
value objects. Justice and law are identical. Static morality is full of
heroes and villains, loves and hatreds, carrots and sticks. Its values
don't change by themselves. Unless they are altered by Dynamic Quality
they say the same thing year after year. Sometimes they say it more
loudly, sometimes more softly, but the message is always the same." (Lila,
9)
The same message from kindergarten on up, year after year -- a simpering,
whining "It's not fair."
And, it's the derided "sick puppy" who brings about social change:
"It's not the "nice" guys who bring about real social change. "Nice" guys
look nice because they're conforming. It's the "bad" guys, who only look
nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social
evolution." (Lila, 13)
Platt
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