[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[John Carl]

Marsha,

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:52 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

>
> Greetings John,
>
> And how is one's duty to be determined: God, country, family, self?
> Is it absolute, or does it change with each occasion?
>
>
Duty... Hmmm... Choice....Hmmm...  Duty or Choice?  Which is which?  All
duties are fundamentally a choice, but not all choices are duties. Of the
two concepts, choice is more fundamental than duty.   Being dutiful to
Loyalty seems to imply keeping this in mind, that what is put upon my plate
by others as "duty" is actually a choice they offer me.  A choice with
social consequence, perhaps, but a choice I must freely make.  When others
try to force some duty upon me (happens quite a lot, actually) it's my duty
to my own sense of self/choice that I remember my role in being the one that
freely makes the choice to satisfy their demands - these "Gods, Countries,
Families and Selves" and in doing so I keep in mind that my absolute duty is
ultimately to loyalty itself -or to put it in more moq'ish terms, my duty is
to make the Quality-ward choice in every situation, howsoever presented.

   Which keeps things pretty simple, altho, not always easy.

Does this answer?

John