[MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

[markhsmit]

On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:49:12 AM, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:
The future impact of the MOQ will be acceptance of a universal moral 
code based on reason instead of current mishmash of arbitrary social 
conventions.

Platt 
Hi Platt,
Those are lofty goals indeed, especially if such reason is intended for a 
utopian existence.  My worry is the use of such a philosophy would in effect
dictate control.  At the present state of human mind development, I often
see the term, reason, as justification.  For example in the phrase "The reason
behind my doing this is:...

I still find it hard to imagine reason separating itself from the psycho-emotional.
This may indeed be possible once the mind has evolved.  My guess is that
we still have a way to go.  However, that is not to say that reason could not
experience a jump of some kind or another.  As it stands, for me reason
is still tightly linked to the basic emotions, deadly sins if you will.

Cheers,
Mark