[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

[Laycock, Jos (OSPT)]

I like to make a distinction, but recognise that it's flawed:

Cultural morality defines its own version of evil within a given culture,
intellect is informed by this definition.
The japanese dont "think" that the A bomb was evil, it actually was/is. 
Likewise Platt doesn't "think" that it was(is)n't, he's completely correct
that it was an act of ruthless moral force.
 
Acts are "described by" cultural level consciousness as good or evil. The
question of whether they actually are or not, is not visible to intellect,
as intellect is a pattern written on top of a what is always a realtively
predjudiced cultural viewpoint. 
At any point where we try to state what is good and what is evil we can only
do so by creating static descriptions of both, but as good is implicitly a
dynamic phenomena (thus so is it's absence) we know that all static
definitions are inaccurate.




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> Sent: 26 September 2006 13:55
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters
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> Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Hey Platt,
> > 
> > No problem meeting force with force, or evil with force, 
> whatever, but
> > I would make a distinction between (ruthless) moral force and evil
> > (and I'm sure you woud too).
> > 
> > A Doctor destroying a virus is hardly "evil" is he ?
> 
> To the germ, yes. As for making a distinction between 
> ruthless moral force and
> evil I guess it depends on whose side you are on. Some think 
> dropping the A-
> bomb to end World War II was evil, and I'm sure a lot of 
> Japanese thought so
> too. But I think it was ruthless moral force.
> 
> Platt
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