[MD] Chance

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Don't you wish. You can run but you can't hide from Pirsig's words: 
"Neither is there a quarrel between the Metaphysics of Quality and 
the "teleological" theories
which insist that life has some purpose."  You may quarrel until the 
cows come home, but it won't change one wit what Pirsig said.

[Arlo]
Unlike you, I don't pretend or ignore Pirsig when I disagree with 
him. What you still have not answered, is "which" teleological 
"purposes" are correct? All of them? Doesn't this make "purpose" 
completely relative?

As for running from Pirsig's words, if you read Pirsig and feel that 
he is proposing a Quality with a conscious volition and intent, a 
Quality which formulates plans and enacts them, a Quality that orders 
and controls the cosmos to its will, a Quality that ordered the 
cosmos to produce "you", and sends cyclones against the Burmese 
people as part of its "plan", then all you've done is turn Pirsig's 
Quality into "Quali-god". Good luck with that.