[MD] Morality and Prudence

[Arlo Bensinger]

[DMB]
I mean we cannot rightly say that "all actions are moral and some 
actions are downright immoral".

[Arlo]
Patterns only become "immoral" in contrast/context to/with other 
patterns. A "virus" does not act immorally, the immorality derives from 
the perspective of the higher pattern with which it is in conflict.

So, I'd disagree, all patterns are ipso facto moral patterns but in a 
contextual milieu of conflicting/constrasting/competing patterns, 
judgements about "immorality" are formed.

"Immorality", then, is a judgement derived from conflicting moral 
patterns (and moral levels, within a MOQ), a statement about which moral 
pattern should triumph in that conflict.

Victorian social morals, for example, are social moral patterns. But 
when they seek to dominate (are in conflict with) intellectual moral 
patterns, we can (using a MOQ) say that it would be immoral for those 
social patterns to dominate (triumph) over the intellectual patterns 
they are in conflict with.