RE: MD a little value choice

From: Laycock, Jos (OSPT) (Jos.Laycock@OFFSOL.GSI.GOV.UK)
Date: Mon Aug 22 2005 - 15:28:03 BST

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    Hi Marsha
    No praise from me....

    Paint is an inorganic building block of potentially dq representative art.
    The practice of creative art that successfully alludes to or is touched by
    DQ is more moral (IMO) than societies or intellect.
    Thus your decision to return the paint can only be justified if you are to
    denigrate your own efforts to the extent that you rule out any possibility
    of them capturing any of the essence of DQ (beautiful/moving) or being
    "rational" in any way (accurate perspective/colour etc).

    Unless; you genuinely feared that the sheer magnitude of your paint larceny
    might have seriously undermined the stability of paint markets thus
    inhibiting future artistry, then if you believe in your own artistic
    abilities (and I sure you have every right to!) you should have kept this
    paint.

    Jos

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
    [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of MarshaV
    Sent: 22 August 2005 13:24
    To: moq_discuss@moq.org
    Subject: MD a little value choice

    Hi all,

    I'd like to tell of a small incident where the MOQ affected a decision I
    made.

    In July I ordered 6 tubes of paint. Four were expensive cadmiums. Five
    days later I received my order. Two days after that I received the same
    merchandise again. Both orders came with a packing slip, but one came
    without a packing number. I was delighted with my unexpected
    bonanza. Greed lives in me. But because the MOQ is forever on my mind, I
    started to think that this would be an appropriate moment to apply its
    principles.

    Since our society is based on a Capitalistic economy, at least in theory,
    and dependent on profits made by business entities, the right choice was to
    return the duplicate order. I called the company, explained the situation
    and arranged to return the merchandise. It was painful to part with the
    "free" extra paint, but I was pleased to think I had made a higher quality
    decision.

    This was only a little moral choice, but maybe because of that it would
    have been easy to let it slip by. I want society stable so that citizens
    may flourish.

    I'm not looking for praise. I am interested in how other people actually
    apply the MOQ principles.

    Marsha

      

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