From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 22:45:31 BST
DMB writes:
> Using Platt's "logic", I don't eat grilled steak
> because its tasty and nutritious, I eat it to assert my political will over
> the other cows.
Nonsense. Eating is biological level behavior.
>There are many reasons to kill; to defend one's home, self,
> society, to eat, to execute criminals, to make money, to hide a secret, to
> cure a disease or advance a cause.
Sure, there are many reasons to engage in biological behavior, like reasons
to have sex. But the reasons do not change the nature of the behavior.
> Terrorism is rightly considered a crime,
> but it is a political act. We don't have to agree with the cause to agree that
> it is motivated by social level goals.
Pirsig disagrees:
"What's coming out of the urban slums, where old Victorian social moral codes
are almost completely destroyed, isn't any new paradise the revolutionaries
hoped for, but a reversion to rule by terror, violence and gang death—the old
biological might-makes-right morality of prehistoric brigandage that primitive
societies were set up to overcome." (Lila, 24)
Note that "biological might-makes-right morality" is directly associated with
"terror, violence and gang death," an apt description of terrorism,
regardless of the social goals involved.
Once again, DMB irrationally confuses intentions with behavior. But, that's
only to be expected from a liberal who values motivations and intentions over
actual results.
Platt
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