[MD] atomic bomb and torture

[Platt Holden]

> 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)." 

[Smith] 
> Would the knowledge that one of us ( moqers ) killed another human being
> influence your value of them?
 
As Pirsig indicates in the passage above, it depends on the 
circumstances. 

Platt