[MD] Social level for humans only

[Andre Broersen]

Magnus to Craig:

Do you see anything about self-sacrifice for the common good like ants do?

Andre:
Self-sacrifice for the common good? Goodness me. Ants thinking in terms of 'common good' and even better: 'self sacrifice'.

Magnus, they don't know their arse from a hole in the ground! Are you serious?

Ants (simply) do!!! ( and I mean this in a Zen sense...they don't even do, they are themselves... 'anting'. That is it. (And you do not need to [Zen] teach an animal this...only human beings!!!).

You seem to forget or rather bypass one of the 'conflicts' between the biological and the social...the social has more freedom. The ant has limited freedom to say or think! Do you really believe it is capable of saying, well, I have had enough of this...enough of this self-sacrificing, I am emigrating to Australia?

It wouldn't even dream of it because the ant simply is what it, is and does what it does: anting. Pure, wonderful, lovely, unadulterated biology.

Tell that to a human being: I am (just) being human!!! And what a fucking shit s/he'll get over this sense of being: to justify, explain, rectify, rationalize, apologize, generalize, apostatize,and what ever else you can think of.

When are us humans simply allowed to be-ing?

I do think that the MOQ provides us with a means of arguing in favour of all sentient beings. We have to learn to practice this, as the path is narrow at present. We have to enable others to experience the liberating effect of expanding their own reasoning...one by one...as Phaedrus has shown us.