[MD] The MOQ's First Principle

[david buchanan]

Arlo said to dmb:
..The MOQ gives us the breaks where a new level was able to emerge from the 
complexity on the previous level. I'm not suggesting that the continuum is 
"smooth" from quarks to Quantum Physics. Only that _in addition_ to the 
emergentist "jumps" from one level to a completely new level, each level in 
and of itself consists of a continuum... and that sometimes the gradations 
within a level are important considerations...

dmb says:
Right. The morality of vegetarianism is really just about eating as far down 
the food chain as possible. There is no such thing as non-biological food, 
but we can make choices from within that level. I suppose that cannibalism 
is taboo precisely because people are almost always more than biological.

Still, I would very much like to have Kate Beckinsale for lunch. To hell 
with the taboo.

Thanks,
dmb

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