[MD] A Place for the Principled Person

[David Harding]

[David]
I adhere to the MOQ. That is, until something better comes along. Any 
standard of morality that allows biological behavior is absolutely 
immoral according to the MOQ.

[Case]
I wonder if you could expand on this a bit. I see this view expressed in
these discussions but confess that I must not understand what is meant.
Biological behavior must be expressed otherwise no society could continue.

[David]
I'm not saying that we should all go and physically kill ourselves to put an end to all biological behavior.  I'm referring to the biological behavior that stands in stark contrast to society.  Murder, assault, rape are a few that come to mind.. there are many others.  Pirsig suggests the puritan model should be dusted off and each value judged impartially for what it is. I think this is a good idea.  

"Drinking, dancing, sex, playing the fiddle, gambling, idleness: these are biological pleasures. Early puritan models were largely a suppression of biological quality."

"When a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.  These moral bads and goods are not just 'customs'.  They are as real as rocks and trees"  

-Lila pg 354.

Cheers,

David.