[MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

[Joseph Maurer]

Hi Ham and all,

DQ undefined, SQ defined.  In an evolutionary environment, the indefinable
comes in different flavors so to speak.

Joe


On 8/7/11 9:59 PM, "Ham Priday" <hampday1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> You throw a monkey wrench in your analysis, however, when you insist that
> reality is Quality.  Quality (Value) is relative to the observer.  Otherwise
> we would all have the same values, and "preference" would be meaningless.
> Why is it the Pirsigians don't understand this?  The Value of your reality
> is what you make of it.  You are the supreme judge and arbiter over your
> existence.  Quality isn't handed to you on a stone tablet.  YOU decide what
> is valuable, worthy, or moral in this life.  Man is the measure of all
> things; if this were not so, we wouldn't be talking about values as choices
> and preferences or debating whether certain kinds of behavior are moral or
> immoral.  The whole point of lining in a relational world is that we are
> free to value it differentially.