From: jc (jcpryor@nccn.net)
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 06:14:07 BST
Greetings Arlo,
>
>[Arlo]
>Could not agree with you more (provided you are not talking about
>violating humane treatment standards).
>
>Interestingly, one of the things I was going to propose to Platt was
>that, since I am arguing the MOQ values sustaining life over
>personal wealth (community taxation to provide life support for
>criminals, e.g.), would be that "community service" may be a way for
>society to benefit from helping sustain the life of those unable to
>come up with the capital means to pay for their own health-care
>needs. Thus, someone who needs dialysis, but can't pay for it, could
>repay society by teaching literacy to kids, or helping deliver meals
>to shut-ins, or help out at the local fire department... a myriad of
>a ways someone can repay society, that would directly benefit
>society for keeping them alive.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Arlo
A myriad of ways indeed. What about time off for organ donation?
Even that makes more sense than frying a perfectly healthy human for
no good reason other than deterence/revenge.
I had this thought when the Terry Schiavo feeding tube debate was
raging, that if I was in a coma, I'd want to fight.
So long as my consciousness was dead, why not fight with my body?
Thus, sell off parts to pay for coma maintenance until perhaps a cure
could be found. And in search of a cure, open up my skull and poke
things. Experiment a bit. What's to lose?
If there were centers for coma patients, you could centralize life
support systems making it more efficient without tying up hospital
beds and you'd have centralized planning with all kinds of benefits
in learning more about the mind-body relationship.
If we start fresh on any question and leave behind our static
prejudices about the way things are supposed to be, we can find fresh
answers, better solutions, quality decisions. That is my plea for
bringing the metaphysics of quality down to earth. Any problem has a
best solution. We don't always get it. Sometimes the best we can do
is approximate and hope. But to my mind, the best of what Pirsig has
to offer the modern world is a way at finding pragmatic solutions.
It's not that the MoQ Society has all the right answers, it's that
there are ways of opening ourselves to discovering answers if we can
free ourselves from static blockages.
jc
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