Re: : Re: Invisible Friends (was Toddler learning]

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 00:53:49 MDT


Brian Phillips wrote:

> Twould appear "Olga Bourlin" <fauxever@sprynet.com> wrote
>
> <Maybe a child of one of those breeders will one day find a cure for -
> cancer? aging? senility? - so you may yet benefit. In all likelihood you're
> already benefiting. If you think about the innovations and inventions of
> which you are the beneficiary - all produced by other people's children - it
> may help you to appreciate how we're all in this together.>>
>
> Does not compute, you are once again lead astray by your
> political attitudes.
> It is unreasonable to expect anyone to finance education outside
> one's own kin-group. You are suggesting that others be happy

Why is that? Does only your own kin-group, and its level of
education and other measures of well-being and productivity,
have a bearing on yourself and your wellbeing?

> and enthused about being robbed to pay for the offspring of
> people they do not identify with or care about. It's just that
> simple. I might very well be willing to put in a bit

No, it is not at all that simple.

> extra to fund a magnet school in Silicon valley.. but Anacostia?
> No, nyet, uh-huh!
> I'd rather give that money to an organization that pays
> drug addicts a fee to undergoe sterilization.
>

Talk about one's political opinions coloring one's remarks!

> It's right here sister. Preach on! Burn the churchs, burn the public
> schools!
> (joke.).
>

Not funny.

- samantha



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