(continued)<br>The rise of the euthanasia
question I see as a manifestation of the collective
(social) value and the uncanny feeling we experience in
its wake is because social value cannot fully be
harmonized to "individual worth" (intellectual value). This
again because the social level is more fundamental than
the intellectual one and will always appear as alien
to the latter. <br> Well then, what does the quality
idea have to say about the actual issue? Is it good or
bad? One moment please. First of all the MOQ
introduces value as the ground-stuff of existence and that
"good" is the - at any time - uppermost level which is
to say that nothing is outright bad, but that the
next lower level will be regarded as such by the
upper. So if the present "individual right" is
identified as (one of the chief patterns of) MoQ's
Intellectual level and the "anti-individual forces" (for lack
of better) is MoQ's Social level, the picture
becomes clearer. As each level is the "parent" to the one
above, we also see that individual value
(Intellect)can't act the cuckoo that pushes the other out of the
nest. IMO this removes the fear that this (self-chosen
death) means means a slippery-slope back to barbarism.
<br> One last round? The individual as equal to
"intellectual value" sounds a bit strange, but that's because
in the subject-object universe a human being is a
biological organism endowed with consciousness and free will
- "mind" for short - in contrast to other organisms
not so well-equipped. This sounds like a noble view
at first, but it soon reveals ugly sides, the one in
question here is that a demented person is removed from
the mind realm and reduced to animal - or vegetable -
status. In the MOQ however, there is no such matter/mind
chasm and no individual rise or fall from grace. Value
is Reality and the Intellectual level is the human
realm, be the individual ever so "reduced". <br> Thus
the accusation of it being some undercover return of
nazism/racism (with its recognition of the collective (social
value) misses the point completely, but many critics of
Pirsig's "LILA" centred on this aspect. Thanks for
reading<br>Bo