[MD] Is this the inadequacy of the MOQ?

[rapsncows at fastmail.fm]

Steve,
thanks.  I heard about this book lila's child, but unfortunately I don't
have access to it from my library!  So I decided to jump in this
discussion, perhaps a bit prematurely.

I think the interesting thing about this quote, especially in light of
the replies I just made, is that in this other situation there is some
judge of the battle, the supreme court!

Tim

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:15:27 -0400, "Steven Peterson"
<peterson.steve at gmail.com> said:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> When I was first trying to wrap my mind about around what Pirsig was
> getting at in Lila, I wish I had known what Pirsig thought was the
> biggest improvement that he could make on it. He wrote this in his
> introduction to Lila's Child:
> 
> 
> "...the biggest improvement I could make in the Metaphysics of Quality
> would be to block the notion that the Metaphysics of Quality claims to
> be a quick fix for every moral problem in the universe. I have never
> seen it that way. The image in my mind as I wrote it was of a large
> football field that gave meaning to the game by telling you who was on
> the 20-yard line but did not decide which team would win. That was the
> point of the two opposing arguments over the death penalty described
> in LILA.That was the point of the equilibrium between static and
> Dynamic Quality. Both are moral arguments. Both can claim the
> Metaphysics of Quality for support. Just as two sides can go before
> the U.S. Supreme Court and both claim constitutionality, so two sides
> can use the Metaphysics of Quality, but that does not mean that either
> the Constitution or the Metaphysics of Quality is a meaningless set of
> ideas. Our whole judicial system rests on the presumption that more
> than one set of conclusions about individual cases can be drawn within
> a given set of moral rules. The Metaphysics of Quality makes the same
> presumption. "
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> Steve
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