From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 23:38:08 BST
Platt and all MOQers:
DMB wrote:
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. ...
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.
"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)
Platt thinks the quote shows that Pirsig disagrees:
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.
dmb replies:
If Osama Bin Laden were a crack dealer or a pimp you might have a good
point, but since his goal is the restoration of Islamic rule, you're an
idiot.
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