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

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> 
> Platt tips his hand:
> Yes, we all know that's your faith -- "Oops, life's a crap shoot" Or, as 
> Pirsig described your faith: "Each individual in his cell of isolation was 
> told that no matter how hard he tried, no matter how hard he worked, his 
> whole life is that of an animal that lives and thinks like any other 
> animal." (Lila,, 22) Yes, we're just a herd of humanity at the mercy of 
> blind fate. Sad.  
> 
> Yes, nowhere to go.    
> 
> Ron:
> Now this statement says alot about your position, you are finally taking ownership.
> Pirsig states that a metaphysics of Quality is a metaphysics of randomness

Platt:
Where does he state this? Let's see a quote. 

Ron:
what for? it's in there and besides you'd either evade it or deny it anyway

Ron:
> his breakthough is that we supply the meaning, all experience is value laden
> and meaningful. A value centered metaphysics.
Platt:
We supply the meaning? What does that mean, that we create language 
and definitions? 

Ron:
Yes, Human Value creates the world we live in.

> Now I'm sure for you, after being raised to believe that a big brother has everything
> planned out for you, the idea of being responsible for your own meaning is quite 
> frightening.

Platt:
"Big brother" is government, and it looks like it indeed is trying to plan 
everything out for us, including when we need to die. 

Ron:
Bigbrother is also God, besides, what changes how the poor elderly die now?
is there any difference? other than some of them have a fighting chance under 
the proposed healthcare bill? If you are too poor to afford healthcare you are too
poor to afford health care. How is giving it away free to those who qualify put those
already sentenced to death by our current system in any more jeopardy?



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