RE: MD Any help

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 19 2005 - 14:34:12 BST

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    > [Arlo]
    > Indeed, Case, you are absolutely correct. Consider that Platt himself
    > misses the similar point made by Pirsig in the very quote he provided. "...
    > but that freedom doesn't have to be obtained by the destruction of the
    > patterns themselves." In fact, Pirsig states "Society exists primarily to
    > free people from these biological chains." Apparently not only "60s
    > intellectuals" have forgotten that fact.
    >
    > Notice too, the deceptive rhetoric, as if I've said the "in the MOQ, the
    > highest moral level is a static pattern of Universal Health Care". It's
    > this kind of deliberately distorted rhetoric that keeps the focus off the
    > topic.

    Are you suggesting that Universal Health Care can be justified on the
    grounds that it would be a desirable static pattern that "frees people
    from biological chains?"

    Platt

     
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