Re: MD MOQ and The Moral Evolution of Society.

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jun 05 2004 - 20:35:03 BST

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    Dear Wim,

    You wrote:
    > From a point of view of assessing societies it is the freedom
    > they allow at a higher level (including freedom to dismantly those
    > justifications...) that determines their relative morality.

    Pirsig supports your statement in the following quote:

    "Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution
    to the evolution of life. A culture that supports the dominance of social
    values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one
    that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual
    values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not."
    (Lila, 24)

    This also supports the moral validity of Reagan's "Evil Empire" and Bush's
    "Axis of Evil."

    Best regards,
    Platt

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