[MD] moral judgements

[Heather Perella]

     [Platt]
If I understand you correctly, you agree with David M.
that your moral decisions are self-directed,
influenced by a few people but mostly from
communicating with the natural world.

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yes... I plead dq also, for I think this is pretty
much it, but I might be leaving something out.

     [Platt] 
> My initial reaction was that to me and Pirsig the
> living natural world 
> is ruled by "a morality called the Law of the
> Jungle" (Lila, 13). That 
> moral code results in life that is fearful, brutish,
> nasty and short -- 
> not my idea of a moral base for humans to rely on. 
> However, on second reading I came up with another
> interpretation,  that 
> you consider a decision to be moral if it can be
> seen to open 
> communication between all the levels, and immoral if
> it tends to block 
> such openness. Would that be somewhat close to your
> view?

     Thank you!  This whole woods talk has an
intellect called me, this human being.  I might talk
about birds and trees, but you've got this human being
with an intellect wrapped up in this experience, too. 
When the experience allows for open communication
between all the levels is helpful.  I don't know if
any communication breakdown between any of the levels
is helpful.  By helpful, I'm talking about this
experience that has woods, people, this intellectual
human being, etc... surviving, yes by helpful I mean
this woodsy experience surviving.  This experience is
moral to me.  I can go into the city, but can't
survive there very long.  The woods are necessary for
cities to survive, you know.  I can't think of any
open communication or closed communication that would
deny this moral train of thought, unless, if I'm
thinking of all the possibilities, then the only
denying to this moral train of thought is immoral
trains of thought.       

thanks,
SA


 
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