[MD] Biological Quality & Social Conservatism

[Heather Perella]

     [Arlo]
> My question is, with whom does the burden of proof
(that a 
> particular behavior threatens the social order) lay?

     Us.  As you said right before this question, we
are to walk arete and the social level will go along
with our definition of the what is excellent.

     [Arlo]
> Can any claim that so-and-so will "destroy society"
be used to justify
> legal restrictions on behavior?

     "destroy society" is too general.  What will
destroy society will be the topic of discussion?

     [Arlo]
> Platt, for example, advanced that notion that is
"possible" that 
> interracial marriage has a destructive effect on
society. Do we forbid > it?

     Society can be an experiment.  Possibilities are
endless.  What will happen with an experiment, a very
scientific controlled physics experiment has
possibilities, society can't be bottled up into a
vacuum experiment that physics experiments strive for.
 Did you know that during the Manhattan Project one of
the possibilities for the testing of the first atomic
bombs was the atmosphere (oxygen and nitrogen) might
change react with the explosion and thus the
atmosphere might catch on fire.  How long that was a
possibility I'm not sure.  I don't know if it was a
possibility right up to the first detonation or not. 
Yet, not too long, a couple months at the very most it
was still a possibility from what I've learned.  Now
how does one test for this possible outcome?  The
first atomic bomb was a big blast, it wasn't done in a
test tube.


     [Arlo]
> What evidence was ever advanced that gay marriage
will destroy 
> society? And yet one was argued that "the majority
should decide" as > to its legality, and the other was
given a weight of being above 
> majority whim.

     Majorities have allowed slavery and cannibalism
in certain societies.  I would say intellect would be
of better light than majorities.


some wind,
SA


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