From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Wed Oct 19 2005 - 18:39:53 BST
> [Arlo]
> Indeed, Case, you are absolutely correct. Consider that Platt himself
> misses the similar point made by Pirsig in the very quote he provided.
"...
> but that freedom doesn't have to be obtained by the destruction of the
> patterns themselves." In fact, Pirsig states "Society exists primarily
> to free people from these biological chains." Apparently not only "60s
> intellectuals" have forgotten that fact.
>
> Notice too, the deceptive rhetoric, as if I've said the "in the MOQ,
> the highest moral level is a static pattern of Universal Health Care".
> It's this kind of deliberately distorted rhetoric that keeps the focus
> off the topic.
[Platt]
Are you suggesting that Universal Health Care can be justified on the
grounds that it would be a desirable static pattern that "frees people from
biological chains?"
[Case]
I don't know if that's what Arlo is suggesting. But if you are saying it, we
may at last have found something to agree on.
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