[MD] NAP

[blue-jay maple]

> > Marsha previously:
> > > It doesn't have any independent existence to begin with.  It cannot
> > > be killed.  It cannot be buried.
> >
> > Nick previously:
> > Then why write and quote this?:
> >
> > > > > Intellectual construct?
> > > > > While sustaining biological and social patterns
> > > > > Kill all intellectual patterns.
> > > > > Kill them completely
> > > > > And then follow Dynamic Quality
> > > > > And morality will be served.

Marsha: 
> Because it is the MOQ way of stating the same thing.  Intellectual 
> patterns do not have any independent existence.   Oh, you mean 
> "Kill all intellectual patterns."   (Poop!!!  Booby traps every 
> time I open my mouth!!! )  I believe this was an analogy for 'don't 
> give those intellectual patterns any mind'.

Nick:
Well my actions are intellectualized to be in accord with the NAP.  I will 
not initiate physical coercion.

The ultimate end is flourishing/quality.  It is not life (person).  The life (birth-death cycle) 
of a dog, criminal, and Pirsig would be all the same if life was the ultimate 
end, but it is not.  Flourishing/quality/pursuit of happiness is the ultimate end for I see 
these three are distinct.  If life (birth-death cycle) was the ultimate end, then there would 
be no way to make a distinction between these three, mere beings upon the birth-death cycle, 
but what is striking is we can see a difference.  There is more to the birth-death cycle and 
it is that a criminal is not living a very flourishing life, but Pirsig with excellence has been able 
to flourish his experience and reason in a way to share in writing an inquiry of quality. 

Nick

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