Re: MD Was > > When metaphysics are not a metaphysics

From: Matthew Poot (mattpoot@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 21:16:18 BST

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    Joe,

    Perhaps farmers may be more 'moral', but I guess that would depend on the
    farmer , and how they farm.

    Matt

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    From: Joe <jhmau@sbcglobal.net>
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    Subject: Re: MD Was > > When metaphysics are not a metaphysics

    > On 29 March 2004 8:37 AM Matt poot writes to Wim:
    >
    > Matt:
    > This is one reason why I laugh at the notion of Free Speech, because, in
    the
    > public limelight, it truly does not exist. If someone says something
    deemed
    > innapropriate, for whatever reason (I'm not talking about the extremes,
    > I.E.the isms), because it is what they feel, they should not be lambasted
    > for saying it. If what they say is really that bad or stupid, then you
    > would just view them as stupid for saying what they did, and lower your
    > opinion of them.
    >
    > Hi Wim and Matt:
    >
    > joe: hi, Matt, I'm Joe. Excuse me, for butting into your conversation
    with
    > Wim. You have said something about free speech that is interesting to me.
    > I've always felt that free speech was unlimited.
    >
    > IMO your statement highlights the war between the levels. The MOQ is a
    new
    > formulation. The MOQ creates a vocabulary for itself. 'Class conflict'
    may
    > be broadened to help extablish that vocabulary. The war between quality
    > levels is a jungle of morality that is difficult to appreciate, although
    the
    > levels are very clear.
    >
    > I accept as moral if someone yells 'Fire!', as a joke , in a crowded
    theater
    > that he can be prosecuted for the people who are injured in the stampede
    to
    > leave the theater. An immoral conflict between the organic and social
    level
    > has been inflamed by the word 'fire'. 'Lambasting' may be appropriate for
    > lesser conflicts, if it seems the person speaking is insensitive to the
    > moral order.
    >
    > IMO the moral order: intellectual patterns, being incomplete, s/o* [*s/o
    > (subject/object) a symbol intuited by Bodvar Skutvik, to describe
    > intellectual patterns. Intellectually, I am not a level unto myself, and
    I
    > feel incomplete. DQ and SQ are separate.] are above social patterns, a
    sense
    > of order. Socal patterns, a sense of order, are above the purpose of
    > organic patterns. Organic patterns with purpose are above the gravity of
    > inorganic patterns.
    >
    > It is immoral to place inorganic gravity patterns above organic patterns
    of
    > purpose. Farmers intervening to help plants flourish is moral. (The next
    > earthquake I feel won't change my mind?) It is immoral to place organic
    > patterns of purpose above social patterns of order. Laws against child
    > molestation are moral. (When next I'm driving on a race track, I will be
    > sure to pass on the left?) It is immoral to place social patterns of
    order
    > above intellectual patterns of incompleteness, s/o. Teachers (scientists)
    > are moral. (Chaos rules?) The mystical sense of morality is evolving.
    > Philosophers (politicians) are moral.
    >
    > Are farmers more moral than police, than teachers, than philosophers?
    >
    > Joe
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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