[MD] [Bulk] Re: empathy

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
My heart is aching for the people in Japan. ... The question 'Why?' 
sticks in my throat and I choke.

[Arlo]
The inorganic level operates with indifference (or more precisely, 
with unknowning) towards the biological (and social, intellectual) 
level. On the inorganic level, all that occurred were inorganic 
patterns pursing "betterness" from their vantage.

When most people ask "why?", there is some assumption that inorganic 
patterns MUST be operating with some recognition for, or 
consideration of, biological, social and intellectual patterns. They do not.

The inorganic level is blind to levels above it. And so conflicts 
occur when inorganic patterns, pursuing Quality just like every other 
pattern, come into conflict with higher levels patterns pursuing 
their own Quality.

The only MOQ answer here, I think, would be "The tsunami and 
earthquakes occurred because within the inorganic level it was better 
that they occurred than not."

We may like to think that inorganic patterns would act with respect 
for biological/social/intellectual patterns of value, but they are 
blind to these.

To ask, "why did a tsunami occur that killed so many people?", for 
example, is to confuse two or more levels. Consider it asked this 
way, "why did the inorganic pattern destroy the biological pattern?". 
This question is nonsensical from within a MOQ, because the inorganic 
pattern does not have any awareness/conception/recognition/whatever 
for the biological pattern, and "why" assumes an awareness of sorts 
that does not exist.

Why did the tsunami occur? Inorganic patterns of value responding to Quality.
Why did the people die? These biological patterns of value could not 
exist within the changed inorganic context wherein they existed, and 
where unable to move to a better context before being destroyed.