A brief, first reply to your interesting, but
confusing mail! Call me thick, but I found it difficult to
follow your point! A few initial points and
questions:<br>For me, the <br>&lt;&lt;moral right AGAINST the use
capital of punishment&gt;&gt; Is comparible to euthanasia
or 'death pill' as an example of the willful taking
of life outside of absolute necessity (because no
one is threatened by a prisoner, and there may be a
medical cure or miracle to save a
patient).<br><br>Society condoning death outside of necessity is a tricky
reality to maintain, to say the least. Where would it
end/// how to control?? Or must I stop looking from the
society viewpoint all together?<br><br>I guess it is more
useful to look from the individual level. If society
grants the individual supreme rights over their bodies,
(as they should, I think) it should not be illegal to
commit suicide, for any reason. But society cannot be
expected to provide the 'death pill' for an unhappy
teenager or depressed housewife in a mid-life crisis (like
myuself!). Or should it? My man thinks (unconventionally)
that society should, as it is the individual's right
to decide.<br>-------------------------<br>Anyway,
what do you mean by "life's testament", and what is
the &lt;&lt;heroic act&gt;&gt;? Sounds like I need to
do/make it too!<br>-----------------------<br>Funnily
enough, I meant the 'natural' idea the other way, ie:
everything can be seen as "natural" on a wide level, and so
it is not a good measure to decide whether an act is
natural or innatural! This positive or negative result
doesn't matter, as the conclusion is the same!<br><br>You
said &lt;&lt;the notion of truth is THE major
Intellectual pattern - Q-intellect that is, in the
subject/object world one is forced to alternate between
subjective (beliefs) and objective (knowledge) and both
leads into blind alleys.&gt;&gt;<br><br>I think I am
missing the point rather here! And I think it is a
central one! Can you expand on this difficult subject of
TRUTH and its relation to the 'intellectual level' a
bit? Do you mean that TRUTH exists as the highest
value (Q) in intellectual terms? Perhaps I am still
thinking is Subject /Object terms too much to grasp these
points fully?<br>-------------------<br>Interesting as
our human myths and legends are (I include the bible,
as well as the more distant Norse or Scot or Red
Indian, and the more recent Comic Books and feature
films) I was trying to talk about a notion of the
absalute 'quality' that I see as being above or beyond
finite nate of a 'will' or a particular 'god' or
'truth'. WHich is why I said<br>&lt;&lt;I dont see this
universal concept as attributed with answers for precise
human quandries.&gt;&gt;<br>Put more positively, the
'quality' response should be soulght at all times to all
questions, but we have to find the answers with our own
fallible, individual wee
selves!<br>-------------------<br>Hope this is a bit clearer. <br>Language is
such a
slippery thing! <br><br>GOOD thoughts to all Pirsig fans,
<br>from Sara