From: MarshaV (marshalz@charter.net)
Date: Mon Aug 22 2005 - 23:36:48 BST
Jos,
Are you suggesting that an artist may commit larceny for their
art? Or that an artist may ignore all consideration for the inorganic,
biological, social and intellectual levels in the name of art. Or are you
suggesting that a larceny so small doesn't warrant consideration?
Marsha
At 03:28 PM 8/22/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Marsha
>No praise from me....
>
>Paint is an inorganic building block of potentially dq representative art.
>The practice of creative art that successfully alludes to or is touched by
>DQ is more moral (IMO) than societies or intellect.
>Thus your decision to return the paint can only be justified if you are to
>denigrate your own efforts to the extent that you rule out any possibility
>of them capturing any of the essence of DQ (beautiful/moving) or being
>"rational" in any way (accurate perspective/colour etc).
>
>Unless; you genuinely feared that the sheer magnitude of your paint larceny
>might have seriously undermined the stability of paint markets thus
>inhibiting future artistry, then if you believe in your own artistic
>abilities (and I sure you have every right to!) you should have kept this
>paint.
>
>Jos
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
>[mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of MarshaV
>Sent: 22 August 2005 13:24
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: MD a little value choice
>
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'd like to tell of a small incident where the MOQ affected a decision I
>made.
>
>In July I ordered 6 tubes of paint. Four were expensive cadmiums. Five
>days later I received my order. Two days after that I received the same
>merchandise again. Both orders came with a packing slip, but one came
>without a packing number. I was delighted with my unexpected
>bonanza. Greed lives in me. But because the MOQ is forever on my mind, I
>started to think that this would be an appropriate moment to apply its
>principles.
>
>Since our society is based on a Capitalistic economy, at least in theory,
>and dependent on profits made by business entities, the right choice was to
>return the duplicate order. I called the company, explained the situation
>and arranged to return the merchandise. It was painful to part with the
>"free" extra paint, but I was pleased to think I had made a higher quality
>decision.
>
>This was only a little moral choice, but maybe because of that it would
>have been easy to let it slip by. I want society stable so that citizens
>may flourish.
>
>I'm not looking for praise. I am interested in how other people actually
>apply the MOQ principles.
>
>Marsha
>
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