[MD] Dawkins quotes RMP on religion.

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Ian]
And maybe it was in the grand scheme of things. They're only small 
islands - fractions of the human cosmos...  - and other members of 
the greater cosmos (ie you) were able to
learn that lesson.

[Arlo]
This sounds eerily like the Despair.com demotivational poster for 
"Mistakes" - "It could be that the purpose of your life is only to 
serve as a warning to others".

http://www.despair.com/mis24x30prin.html

[Ian to Krimel]
I think what you highlight is not a so much a problem with MoQ, but a 
problem with (some) people expecting simplistic / normative / 
prescriptive rules to automagically pop out of it, without 
understanding, explanation and enlightenment

[Arlo]
I think this was Krimel's point. I'd add that I, too, find the 
"levels in conflict" metaphor too simplistic. More often than not, 
the upper levels' relations with the lower are akin to gardening 
(rather than "mining", which would be the conflict/superiority 
metaphor). Yes, sometimes outright hostile conflict occurs, and yes, 
morality sides with the higher level, but these few examples don't 
relate the complex balance and (dare I say it) ecology of the MOQ.