From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 27 2005 - 12:35:31 BST
MSH opines:
> Your choices are a
> diplomatic effort to come to terms with root causes, or use your profile
> and, borrowing the phrase of a prominent contributor to this list, "kill
> 'em all like germs." Option 2 requires you to check your humanity at the
> door.
"Intellectuals must find biological behavior (killing), no matter what its
ethnic connection, and limit or destroy destructive biological patterns
with complete moral ruthlessness, the way a doctor destroys germs, before
those biological patterns destroy civilization itself." (Lila, 24 - parens
added.)
Does this mean Pirsig checks his humanity at the door? After all, where
is his compassion, his sympathy, his caring, his seeking causes and
apologizing for biological behavior? The man is obviously a nutcase.
Platt
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