[MD] The End of Faith - Spirituality

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Quoting Ham Priday <hampday1 at verizon.net>:

> 
> 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.)

A trick question no doubt but I'll bite. Give me the individualist society as
more moral. 

Regards,
Platt




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