[MD] Biological Quality & Social Conservatism

[David M]

Hi SA


Glad you are using the concept of the possible that you suggested was
no use to you a while back. The next big collider experiement in Europe
may possibly create a black hole and suck our whole cosmos into it,
apparently, but not a highly likely possibility they say, or is it hope?
Those science boys eh!

David M


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Perella" <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Biological Quality & Social Conservatism


>     [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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