From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 16:40:01 GMT
Hi Platt, Chin,
Chin - thanks for an intriguing post, which quoted one of my favourite lines from ZMM: "My personal
feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making
Quality decisions and that's all."
I think this is the answer to Platt's question: "What source of morality should [the nation] rely on
until the MOQ is as widely known and believed as religious moral teaching?" and it lies behind what
Platt quotes from RMP ""To put philosophy in the service of any social organization or any dogma is
immoral. It's a lower form of evolution trying to devour a higher one."
In other words, the individual choosing Quality *cannot* be driven by any coherent body of
teaching - including the MoQ - the decision has to be autonomous, else there is no DQ, therefore no
'further improvement'.
(Thing is, if the individual has this central a place in the application of the MoQ, shouldn't the
MoQ have some means of describing or fostering such behaviour? Or is it beyond it (by definition)?)
Oops. I'm on my hobby horse again.
Sam
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