Hi there
> Firstly Roger, welcome to the trinity squad. Don't worry about the
> self-appointed guardians of MoQ orthodoxy. They have already mauled MoQ
> far more than anything you, I or even Fintan have written.
As far as I'm aware the MoQ is based upon 4 levels of value. When this changes
to 3 it is at this point that the MoQ gets mauled. But why bother to stop at 3?
Why not just go for one or even better no levels, after all there is no empirical
evidence for the existence of anything.
> "The Enlightened value the Truth", but our society values something else.
Of course it does. It values its own existence and if that means that members of
society are destroyed or removed for whatever reason then this is fine for society
as a whole. Thus the expression, "The greatest good for the greatest number".
Which is fine if you happen to be one of the greatest number in your society, i.e.
wealthy, healthy, educated etc. If you poor, unfit and badly educated then in
social terms you are worthless and so can be excreted or ignored.
> We already have that system! It's called the FREE MARKET. People vote
> with their feet - or rather, their wallets. The fatter your wallet, the
> greater your influence.
>
> The prime value in our society is the wallet.
I'm sure Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Robert Maxwell, Margaret ("There is no
society, only individuals") Thatcher, General Pinochet, Idi Amin, Adolf Hitler, Pol
Pot et. al. would agree with you. Is this the company you would prefer to keep?
Or would you prefer the company of Galileo, Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Gandhi
and others who prefered to believe that truth, freedom and the rights of the person -
all intellectual values - are of greater value than money and power - social values.
I haven't noticed any societies dying for the basic rights of individuals, nor will
they, but there are a hell of a lot of people around the world who have given their
life for the most basic of human rights. Rights denied to them by their and our
societies.
If you prefer the dominance of the intellect by society then that's your choice - but
I think I'll stick with what's right and what's good.
Horse
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