From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 21:30:22 BST
Hi DMB:
> dmb writes:
> With a bit of intellectual values thrown in? As Rick has so patiently tried
> to explain, individual rights are pretty much the whole point. I'd only add
> that you've misread this case in terms of the MOQ too. Clearly, this is a
> case where intellectual values won over particular social values, and
> understood in terms of Pirsig's codes, this is a great moral victory. A
> higher, more inclusive and expansive set of moral values were validated by
> the courts decision. Laws based on nothing more than bigotry and hateful,
> obsolete religious sentiments were struck down. Social codes came into
> conflict with the principle of the individual's right to privacy and rights
> won. This is a good thing.
You might want to point out where Pirsig said that a right to privacy is
an intellectual value. If you can't, you're attributing a position to him
that isn't there, just as the Court found a right to sodomy in the
Constitution that isn't there.
Pirsig did write this:
"I personally am pro-choice, but I understand the moral integrity of those
who are not. It is a matter for society through its mechanisms of politics
to decide and keep deciding as it evolves toward a better world." (Lila's
Child, Note 92.)
Pirsig's "codes" appear to be much more tolerant than yours. Moreover, you
will notice that he comes down on the side of the "mechanisms of
politics," i.e. legislatures, to decide such moral questions, not the
courts which are supposed to be above politics. This is also my position.
Misread this case in terms of the MOQ? Show some evidence, please, not
just your personal bias.
Platt
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