[MD] moral judgements

[Heather Perella]

Platt and David M.,


> Platt said:>
> > I have asked this group any number of times to
> identify the basis
> > for their moral judgments.
 
> DM: What would I say? Well, I think that I simply
> respond to my environment,
> which includes, as my understanding has grown, an
> evolving
> cosmos, with people, other life, and non-living
> stuff. I can respond and act
> based only on my understanding of this world, its
> content and my part in it.
> As this small, self-directed part (as an SQ/DQ
> evolving complex of 
> patterns -so
> also patterned and repeating in part too), I move
> towards what I think is 
> the
> best possible future available, which may include my
> self-advancement but
> if I value certain other people or things over and
> above myself might call 
> for my self-demise.

      My moral judgments are similarly made with
specific guidance from trees, deer, and bears, wise
ones such as my father, etc...  I have not been one to
rely upon people for moral guidance unless they are
close in values, thus, I am familiar with their
efforts and trust their guidance, for, their guidance
comes from similar paths.  I have also been known to
trust my family, but even there if arguments stir, I
have always been the peacemaker in the house, that's
what my father says.  I now work at a facility that is
all about people, oddly enough.  Yet, I see the break
down in communication fairly often, so, physical,
hands-on situations are a necessity at times, or else
the anger and defiance leads to unsafe situations for
all the people involved.  This lack of communication
where stubbornness feeding off of anger leading into
verbal and physical aggression so somebody can get
their own way, without peaceful means, embodies strong
distinctions in this environment as to how people are
good and not so good.  It's still that idea of the
ecosystem or the woods where birds sing and deer graze
and all of these events in the woods are able to bond
so much into a harmony that the distinctions melt
away, and thus, as I walk in the woods, that could
mean a groundhog walking into a hole.  Even the
carnivorous actions of a red-tailed hawk eating a
rabbit just seems to fit snug in this world.  
     Yet, what is it at work where an obvious break
down occurs upon this continuum of the woods.  Where
the nondistinctions of the woods are terribly made
distinct into pains and distresses.  The hawk eating
the rabbit is a continuing of life, a nondistinction. 
The resident yelling at everybody, even those that
talk softly to them in order to get some kind of line
of communication in through to them, yet, their ears
and mind have shut everybody off, and it is a
break-down where boundaries are erected.  This lack of
communication at work demarcates where the woods come
to a slow hinder.  It is these lines of communication
or lack thereof which is at the very core of moral
judgments for me, at least I think it is.
     If deer are talking to me, that is no boundaries
are being erected between us, then the distinctions
can melt, my mind is at ease and thus resting, and I'm
just livin' consciously alert with this stream of
life.  If the residents are not talking to me, that is
boundaries are being erected between us, then the
distinctions arise, my mind is not at ease and I can't
rest, and I'm seeing and feeling life being controlled
and directed for somebodies own wishes and gains,
trying to muster enough life-force/power to control
all those around them into what is unnatural. 
Unnatural due to this primary reality being forced to
disappear for the gains and wishes of one or a few
individuals, forcing reality to be only them, and they
are not letting reality be spread out for all to
enjoy.  This nonspreading of reality, at least to how
I'm sqing this, is making boundaries, controlling the
flow, and thus distinctions forming that are being
forced to stay distinct.  The spreading out of reality
has reality seen to be everywhere and thus no
distinctions are made as to where reality is or is
not.  In this case, reality is just here, everwhere. 
It is an odd sqing maybe, and it is an odd way for
reality to act under certain conditions, but it is the
controlling of the flow or the noncontrolling of the
flow opening these talks, these lines of
communication.  That's how I'm making moral judgments.

Thanks,
SA


 
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