[MD] Quality and the Higgs Field: An Analogy

[Ham Priday]

Hi John --

On Wed Feb 2, 2011 at 2:12 PM, "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ham:
>
>>  (I happen to believe that the universe is amoral.)
>
> This makes no sense at all to me, Ham,  how could it possibly be?
> How can morality even be defined, except through that which
> promotes life?  And the universe obviously produces life, so it
> must be intrinsically moral.  Unless you can explain this to me,
> I view all the rest of your wordification as mere babbling nonsense.
>
> A "glass darkly" indeed.

John, are earthquakes, floods, disease, deformity and death moral?   Is 
genocide, tyranny, rape, theft, and corruption moral behavior?   If the 
universe is "moral", how is it that we experience or engage in such evils?

Mark and others have already pointed out that "if everything is Quality, 
then Quaity doesn't exist"   In other words, we need "low quality" as a 
comparative referent.  The same is true of morality.  It is man himself who 
differentiates and measures the scale of experiential values.  Doesn't this 
suggest that moral order is a valuistic concept of human beings to ensure 
their survival is a collective society?

Consider the alternative.  If morality were a universal principle, and 
nothing bad ever occurred, how would we know what was "better", "worse" or 
imperfect?   What would be the moral point or meaning of such an existence?

We stand at the crossroads of our moral spectrum.  Our value sensibility 
determines what is good and bad in the universe, and our rationality enables 
us to choose the most appropriate action.  My moral axiom is "rational, 
self-directed value."  What is yours?

Seeing through the glass brightly,
Ham