From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 18:44:32 GMT
Hi Sam
I think the idea is that MOQ challenges SOM and that it
should liberate one from the limitations of SOM and open
new space where our DQ possibilities are greater.
SOM says there is no alternative, MOQ says there
is always a better quality choice.
DM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Norton" <elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:40 PM
Subject: MD individuals making Quality decisions
> 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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