Hi Diana and Squad
You wrote:
> After going over and over it I still feel that using intellectual
> arguments you could make Pirsig's moral codes support
> anything you want,
Read this again, especially "intellectual arguments". Don't you see
why the moral codes seems to support anything you want? The moral
codes don't need us to intellectualize them and decide what's moral
and not, they go about their business totally unaware of us anyway.
Iron fragments knows what's moral to them, and when they are
exposed to a magnetic field, they act according to their code of
morality.
When an amoebae detects food, it moves in that direction and eats
it. That's biological morality, or reality, or Quality.
To determine whether communism is more moral than capitalism is
perhaps too big a task right now. We have to learn to crawl
before we can walk, or run.
Large parts of the Squad still haven't learned that morality is
not necessarily intellectual SPoVs. Of course, we have to
intellectualize it to be able to discuss it here, but we have to
do it right.
Now, how do we know when we've done it right?
I think the answer is:
When we have a system where morality = reality = Quality, we can
use that system to intellectualize events without distorting it.
And that system is DQ and the four levels of SQ. I seriously
doubt there's more than one.
Magnus
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