Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Thu, 2 Oct 1997 20:21:05 +0100
skutvik@online.no wrote:
> Maggie wrote:
> >
> > Although I think Bo is talking about something valid that I'd like to get a
> > handle on :-), I'm going to agree with you here. I also think it is
> > possible for a lower morality to affect the higher. For example, the AIDS
> > virus is a development in the biological level that has profoundly affected
> > the higher levels.
> >
>
> You are right that a lower level may affect (see my answer to James )
> a higher one, but I want to keep the MORALITY clear. Each and
> every morality's 'raison d'etre' is to free itself from the lower
> morality's limits. Life is to "point nose" at Inorganic (death), and
> this basic task will not be changed or affected by Matter.
> Something quite different is that changes in material conditions
> (food etc) may have grave consequences for a local or temporal life
> form, or as in your example of the the AIDS virus effect on society.
> The term "profound" I keep in reserve for deeper metaphysical needs
> :-)
>
I get it. Thanks.
> I have this urge to get to the mountain top of big vistas when
> details threaten to overwhelm me. Earlier on you said something
> about being alone with the MOQ for so long and now swimming in it! (a
> little note of regret?). I sympathize with haven't not quite got used
> to meeting so many unfamiliar views and angles.
>
The only regret is that it takes me so much time to come up to speed with this.
:)
Maggie
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