[MD] Social Decisions

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

>      Platt, you have been wondering for some time -
> who will make decisions.  This is usually a question
> of yours in government and anarchy threads.  Well,
> here's your answer.  Everybody.  This quote from
> Nicholas Maxwell helps bring this "everybody" to light
> more (Taken from "Basic Argument for the Need for an
> Intellectual Revolution"). 

I assume by "everybody" you mean each of us individually is responsible
for his own decisions and choices -- and is duty bound as a free person to
enjoy or suffer the consequences, as the case may be.   

>      "One outcome of getting into social and
> institutional life the kind of aim-evolving,
> hierarchical methodology indicated above, generalized
> from science, is that it becomes possible for us to
> develop and assess rival philosophies of life as a
> part of social life, somewhat as theories are
> developed and assessed within science."
> 
> This is exactly what I thought we were doing
> here. Putting in our thoughts and watching what happens.  Ham likes to call
> this poetry and not philosophy, but philosophy has
> always been something done at the dinner table in my
> life.

 
Yes, I agree that is what we are doing here, and that's why it's so out of
step with our purpose to ask that anyone but blocked from expressing his 
views. But, that too, is part of the exchange around "the dinner table" of
MOQ discuss. And like a dinner table, anyone at any time is free to remain
silent, or get up and leave. 

Have a nice evening.

Platt







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