[MD] Reductionism

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On 6 Jun 2009 at 14:01, blue-jay maple wrote:

> A tobacco business doesn't force you to buy their 
> products and smoke them.  The holocaust was a physically 
> coercive event.  You have a choice to buy the cigarettes, even 
> though they are addictive.  Those dead in the holocaust 
> didn't have a choice.
> 
> Nick

Hey Nick, 

Right. Apparently Krimel sees no moral difference between coercion and 
free choice, a distinction that seems to escape those devoted to systems  
thinking .To illustrate such thinking, where individual parts are 
subservient to the system's goals, Pirsig used the metaphor of the Giant. 
The Giant, you'll recall, intentionally devours human beings.

Platt