[MD] Social Darwinism

[Ham Priday]

Hi Marsha --

> Everything is water. Would you agree that some water
> is better than other water?

A clear, lucid analogy.  And you're absolutely right, Marsha.

I get categorized as an SOM hanger-on precisely because the MoQers don't 
understand this.  Two conditions are necessary to evaluate anything:

1. The evaluating agent (i.e., subject) must be separated from the object 
experienced.           .

2.  The value must be relative to the subject within a range of 
possibilities.

If the universe (objective reality) is perfect goodness, everthing in it is 
good (moral?).  That would make valuation meaningless, as well as a 
"valuistic" obsever.

Instead, the universe is amoral, affording a variety of value possibilities 
relative to the observer.  And the essence of one's experience -- the being 
of his/her reality -- is determined by the value choices made in life.

This relational system is called Existence.  Epistemologically, it is 
"being-aware" of Value.

Thanks for a simple but effective analogy.

Essentially yours,
Ham