[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[Case]

[Platt]
> So you believe creatures at the biological level to be the morally
> equivalent to those at the social and intellectual levels?

[Case]
I think social morality is grounded in biology. Society (and here I would
include ants, bees and chimpanzees) is an evolutionary strategy. I am not
sure what the intellectual level is and don't really have an opinion about
it.

[Platt]
You must suffer a great deal of angst when you eat a hamburger or even a
tomato.

[Case]
Having respect for life does not make one a Jain.

[Platt]
> P.S. I suspect you consider your ideas better than mine. :-)

[Case]
I am evolving an increasing probabalistic view of almost everything. So it
is fair to say that I believe my ideas have a higher probability of being
correct. I think what Pirsig says about ideas having quality this is what
he mean. We should not speak in terms of rightness and wrongness but terms
of likehood and utility.