[MD] Social Decisions

[ian glendinning]

Nice try Master Baiter.. keep fishing.
Ian


On 7/29/07, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:
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> >      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").
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> 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.
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> >      "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.
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> 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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