Greetings one and all,
Platt wrote:
Actually I was unaware of this hypocrisy in the MOQ and appreciate
your pointing it out. Frankly I was shocked to learn that the MOQ
considers vegitarians to be morally superior to the vast majority of
Americans and Europeans, at least as regards their eating habits. That
I never picked up on this before illustrates once again that one tends to
see what one wants to see.
This may or may not be germane to the question of Pirsig's posited
hypocrisy, but in point of fact, the MoQ itself does not require
vegetarianism. In this instance RMP is making a tacit assumption about the
viability of human life on a vegetarian diet; if that assumption is altered
(ie by making the assumption that meat is necessary for human flourishing)
then the MoQ comes down equally clearly on the side of non-vegetarianism.
I write this as someone who was vegetarian for ten years, but who now isn't,
on the grounds that whilst it is possible to survive on a meat-free diet, it
is not (IMHO) possible to thrive.
Sam
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