Carrol wrote in responding to Ted:
> I agree that indeed moralistic judgments are impermissable. (I also agree in advance that empirically all of us, including me, keep falling into them. That does not mean they should not be resisted.) Whether or
not my grounds would be the same as Ted's I will leave for another day. I think the conclusion itself can be defended on merely pragmatic grounds. Moralistic judgments almost always fuck up the works. :-)
Ok, naive question time. How do you avoid moralistic judgments? Isn't even saying that moralistic judments are impermissible a moralistic judgment?
Isn't it necessary at sometime to define what is right or wrong (or in my Buddhist terms helpful or unhelpful)? I have no issue with pragmatism being the tool to do this work, but it seems that at some point a judgment has to be made to continue with one's efforts.
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister