From: Ascmjk@aol.com
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 19:50:14 BST
In a message dated 8/2/2005 8:04:26 AM Central Standard Time,
pholden@sc.rr.com writes:
> The message is clear. Lives (mind/intellect) are more important than
static
> wealth piles. Even if it threatens to destroy the society, society must
> protect the lives of criminals, and non-criminals alike.
There's a world of difference between footing the bill to keep criminals
off the streets in my neighborhood and being assessed to pay for my
neighbor's fourth stay in a drug rehabilitation facility.
Jon jumps in randomly:
That's an interesting term: static wealth piles. Of course, lives are more
important, but the social level that determines the value of these piles, is
also the social level that determines the value of life. I think there's an
inherent defect in every level, and one of the defects in the social level is
its inability to appreciate the value of the individual's mind. While the
social level is quite good at dealing with the individual's biological level, it
isn't so good at dealing with the individual's intellectual level. How could
it? It's a lower form of evolution.
Are we saying it's okay for a lower form of evolution to decide the value of
the mind? An individuals static wealth piles isn't just subject to what
society says it needs, the wealth piles are also subject to the individuals
intellectual level. There must be a balance between what level of evolution
decides how these piles should be used. Society uses money in ways the biological
level doesn't value. The intellectual level uses money is ways the social
level doesn't value. As long as it's legal for individuals to have private saving
accounts at all, they should have final say over how & when their money is
utilized. (of course, there are some who think savings accounts are inherently
immoral, but that's not a view I hold).
Why shouldn't each individual keep these static piles in a safe place for
that special moment when intellectual DQ hits? A sudden burst of inspiration
could lead to a cure to some diseases, and that individual wouldn't have to wait
for society to grant him the funds to plow forward with his scientific work.
Something to consider.
Jon
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