From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 22:13:20 BST
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From: "David Morey" <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:40 AM
Subject: Re: MD the metaphysics of free-enterprise
> Mel:Aggregate summations, or averages, or estimates
> of morality based on assembling other peoples'
> actions is a fiction, a reduction to Static Quality.
>
> DM: Let us think. We go to work. People
> give us things to do. We take the pay so we
> are obliged to do them. We have given away our
> responsibility, we allow others to decide what we
> will do.
We never give away our responsibility...
The defense of "I vas chust doink my chob." failed
in the post WW-II trials for those who worked the camps.
>This is command and authority and is based
> on millitary models. Maybe we all need the right to
> decide what we will do at work? Sorry
> boss I think that decision is immoral, I cannot do that!
> Currently this is a good way of never having a job!
>
I have always found in my jobs that the way a 'boss' worked
was to say that the goal of the work was to accomplish 'X'
and the question of how to get it done was usually left to the
people actually doing the work. We had the choice to act in
a moral manner. Most people I worked with were very much
committed to egalitarian treatment of one another, moral
actions, and not excessively wasting their time.
In the normal working environment the employee can
exercise the "I quit!", option when something is in danger
of becomning unacceptable.
thanks--mel
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