[MD] atomic bomb and torture

[beauteak4u at aol.com]

Platt said:

"There's no mistake about Pirsig's willingness to kill (destroy the 
entity as a whole) if that entity (person) poses a threat to 
society."It's moral for a society to prevent a criminal from destroying 
it by killing him if that is necessary." (LC, Note 136) and " . . . a 
society has a right to murder people to prevent it's own destruction." 
(Lila, 13) There's a curious reluctance on the part of many posters  
here to admit that Pirsig justifies killing people under certain 
circumstances "before those biological patterns destroy civilization 
itself." (Lila, 24)." 
 
Would the knowledge that one of us ( moqers ) killed another human being influence your value of them?
 
Smith