[MD] Correctness and Usefulness

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

> 
> > > SA previously:
> > > > >     Without compassion for your fellow human
> > what hope do any of us have?
> > > 
> > > Platt:
> > > > "Intellectuals must find biological behavior, no
> > > > matter what its ethnic connection,
> > > > and limit or destroy destructive biological
> > patterns
> > > > with complete moral ruthlessness,
> > > > the way a doctor destroys germs, before those
> > > > biological patterns destroy
> > > > civilization itself." (Lila, 24)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > SA previously:  Yeah, and your point?
> 
> Platt quotes Pirsig: 
> > "The ideal of a harmonious society in which everyone
> > without coercion cooperates
> > happily with everyone else for the mutual good of
> > all is a devastating fiction."
> > (Lila, 24)
> 
> 
> SA:  Yes, and again, your point?  Are you just in the
> mood to quote Pirsig to somebody?

My point is the same as Pirsig's. Sorry if you don't get it, or don't believe it.

Platt




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