[MD] Christendom's place in the MOQ

[Platt Holden]

> [Krimel]
> I hate to be the one to bring you up to speed on this but the Russians
> did
> get the bomb.

Right, after we got it, thanks to your science friends. They saved us to 
fight foreign totalitarianism another day. I for one am much obliged.  

> It's all there in the scenario that you failed to address.
> This wasn't about us or the Russians it was about Pirsig's claim the
> cannibals in New Guinea should be judged the morally superior culture. I
> take it you agree with that.

If you understood Pirsig's moral hierarchy you would know that any 
surviving humans would be considered morally superior to animals and 
plants. I agree. But dreaming up weird scenarios is of little help in 
understanding real world experience. 
  
> [Platt]
> Yes, killing those species of germs that might have killed us all was 
> certainly a moral disaster. 
> 
> [Krimel]
> I seriously doubt if we have the capacity to render a species of
> microbes
> extinct.

Guess you never heard of smallpox.

> I was talking about something along the lines of this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_animals_(USA) 
> But it isn't just this list. It's any species that we have driven to
> extinction anywhere on the planet. Isn't the culture that kills them
> morally
> inferior according the definition YOU dredged out of Lila?

No. 

> Or are you
> saying
> you think Pirsig is wrong?

No.