Hi, Jon and David and Mary (Remember me? I'll be nice, I promise!) and
MoQers all!
Jon wrote:
> But this tool has come to utterly dominate our lives. You can pretend
> you don't care about money in today's world, but deep down, you do. It's
> engrained in you and shapes your life. I think it's damaging to the human
> spirit. It's like a necessary evil we've come to blindly accept. The
evidence
> is certainly there. Certainly, abolishing money would be a disaster if
done
> all at once, but the first step is evaluating how we feel about money, and
> the changes we can make on an individual level. Passing social laws never
> helps (but abolishing a few social laws often does).
Again, the reason it has come to "dominate" our lives is because we allow it
to. Any medium of exchange is money. The problem is is when we value it for
its own sake. How would a moneyless society operate?
> Morally, you're supposed to treat Jack and Jim the same even if Jack makes
> more money than Jim; but in reality, it often doesn't work like this. We
> evaluate people based on their income (quite often). Just like a father
who
> wants to know what his daughter's future husband does for a living. It
> matters to people.
Of course it does. One does not wish paupery on one's children and
grandchildren. I am equally
concerned about my prospective son-in-law's moral character. One does not
wish
degeneracy upon one's children either. To conclude that one must morally
treat any two individuals exactly the same is silly. Individuals need to be
treated individually, which involves looking deeply into each person in
order to treat him/her with the respect and dignity he/she deserves.
> We have countless channels and television programs devoted to the stock
> market,
I need to get satellite. I don't get any channels devoted to the stock
market.
> yet we have no (at least in my viewing area) cancer or AIDS channel.
> Is something wrong with that picture?
Nope. I would wonder about the mental health of someone who would consider
watching the cancer/AIDS channel all the time. Incorporating the messages
into mainstream media is actually much more palatable for the average
viewer, who are the very folks we are trying to reach.
Manning wrote:
> (or at least attempts have been made to make them subservient) to social
or
> biological values (eg. the 1850 plans by the government of Indiana to set
the
> value of pi to 3.2)
Ya mean, it ain't? Yeesh.
drose, from here in Podunk, Indiana. vbg
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
MD Queries - horse@wasted.demon.nl
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Aug 17 2002 - 16:00:42 BST