[MD] vegetarianism

[Jos Laycock]

Ok question:

Eating vegitables is more moral that eating meat, but both actions a moral 
as both involve higher consuming lower order patterns, so is it imoral to 
decide to take an action that chooses a less moral act over a more moral act 
when neither act is actually *bad? (*lower level consumes higher level)
If we answer that it is, then we could be off on a route to puritanism and 
all sorts of value judgements have to be made, concerning the choices 
between competing "top answers" where even picking a good path will be 
essentially wrong as it was not the very best one that was available???



>From: Squonkonguitar at aol.com
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] vegetarianism
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:05:54 EST
>
>it seems the general gist is that eating meat or not
>is  a personal  choice, and that both choices can be
>ethical.
>
>seems like no-one agrees  with bob on this one. so
>where does that leave the MOQ?
>
>Mark 8-11-06: Hello Gav,
>I'm not a vegetarian.
>I eat white meat and fish so that rules me out.
>The passage in Lila which refers to vegetarianism reads:
>'An evolutionary morality, on the other hand, would say it's  
>scientifically
>immoral for everyone because animals are at a higher level of  evolution,
>that is, more Dynamic, than are grains and fruits and  vegetables.  But the
>moral force of this injunction is not so great  because the levels of
>evolution are closer together than the doctor's patient  and the germ. It
>would add, also, that this moral principle holds only where  there is an
>abundance of grains and fruits and vegetables.  It would be  immoral for
>Hindus not to eat their cows in a time of famine, since they  would then be
>killing human beings in favor of a lower organism.'
>
>I agree with Pirsig on this issue.
>I was a vegetarian from about 1979 to 1983 or so, after which i started
>eating white meat and fish again.
>There have been phases since when i ate red meat regularly.
>
>During my veggie stage i read allot about the dreadful waste meat  
>industries
>generate, besides the health dangers, and remember being a bit of a  pain 
>in
>the arse for people who didn't really want to hear about it.
>These days i need a kick up the arse to get back into it.
>The MoQ has an elegant way of forming this issue.
>Love,
>Mark
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