[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

[Ham Priday]

Platt and Ron --

[Platt]:
> Everyone has opinions. I happen to agree with Pirsig's
> about the moral superiority of the higher levels over the lower.

[Ron]:
> But what does that mean exactly,
> given how we just defined superiority,
> moral, and reality as the same?

[Platt]:
> It means exactly that it is more moral for a doctor to
> kill a germ than a germ to kill a doctor, and it is more
> moral for an idea to kill a society than a society to kill an idea.

Here's a question in search of an opinion.
Which is more moral?  A collectivist society in which no one is free but no 
one is hungry, or an individualist society in which everyone is free but a 
few go hungry?

(I'll tell you where I got it, and which society the author chose, after 
I've heard your opinions.)

Regards,
Ham