[MD] MOQ/BOC

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Dan]
> If social patterns are not intellectual,
> how do we discriminate them from other patterns?
> Are they hard-wired into our nature?

No, if they were hard-wired they would, of course, be
biological.
IMHO social patterns must be learned & there is a 
"right vs. wrong" aspect to them (this last is the
subjective aspect, but see below).
If you itch, it is not right or wrong to scratch, 
it just is a biological response.
But if following a social ritual, there is a right or wrong
wrong way to do it. If in addition,
there is a reason for doing it a certain way
(other than, "that's just the way the ritual goes"),
then we are in the intellectual realm.
Craig