[MD] MOQ and SOM

[X Acto]

Latching was what was needed all right. Historically every effort to unite science
 and ethics has been a disaster. You can't paste a moral system on top of a pile of
 amoral objective matter. The amoral objective matter never needs this paste job. 
It always sloughs it off as superfluous.
But the Metaphysics of Quality doesn't permit this slough-off. It says, first of all, 
that 'amoral objective matter' is a low-grade form of morality. No slough-off is possible. 
It states, second of all, that even if matter weren't a low grade form of morality there 
still would be no metaphysical need to show how morals are derived from it. With static 
patterns of value divided into four systems, conventional moral patterns have almost 
nothing to do with inorganic or biological nature. These moral patterns are superimposed 
upon inorganic nature the way novels are superimposed upon computers. They are more 
commonly opposed to biological patterns than they are supportive of them.
And that is the key to the whole thing.
What the evolutionary structure of the Metaphysics of Quality shows is that there 
is not just one moral system. There are many. In the Metaphysics of Quality there's 
the morality called the 'laws of nature,' by which inorganic patterns triumph over 
chaos; there is a morality called the 'law of the jungle' where biology triumphs 
over the inorganic forces of starvation and death; there's a morality where social 
patterns triumph over biology, 'the law;' and there is an intellectual morality, 
which is still struggling in its attempts to control society. Each of these sets o
f moral codes is no more related to the other than novels are to flip-flops.
What is today conventionally called 'morality' covers only one of these sets of 
moral codes, the social-biological code. In a subject-object metaphysics this 
single social-biological code is considered to be a minor, 'subjective,' physically 
non-existent part of the universe. But in the Metaphysics of Quality all these sets 
of morals, plus another Dynamic morality are not only real, they are the whole thing.
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