From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 19:34:18 BST
Rick, Platt and all sodomites:
PLATT
> Was the Court's decision correct according to the MOQ? Here we see a
> biological value, sodomy, in conflict with a social value (social mores)
> with a bit of intellectual values (individual rights) thrown in.
dmb writes:
With a bit of intellectual values thrown in? As Rick has so patiently tried
to explain, individual rights are pretty much the whole point. I'd only add
that you've misread this case in terms of the MOQ too. Clearly, this is a
case where intellectual values won over particular social values, and
understood in terms of Pirsig's codes, this is a great moral victory. A
higher, more inclusive and expansive set of moral values were validated by
the courts decision. Laws based on nothing more than bigotry and hateful,
obsolete religious sentiments were struck down. Social codes came into
conflict with the principle of the individual's right to privacy and rights
won. This is a good thing.
In my opinion, the people who are happy about this are the "real" Americans.
I mean, why should anyone be sad or angry to see the nation's most essential
principles upheld? It seems the unhappy ones just don't get it.
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