From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 17:15:18 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> The whole problem with the logic of this court decision is that they
> claim that young children are unable to freely choose to not say the
> pledge. So freakin what? Young children are not allowed to freely choose
> whether or not to go to school at all,
Hence the massive decline in quality from the consumer's perspective.
> so how come this little 60 second
> spec of one's school day has to be so sacrosanctly respecting of their
> 'freedom'?
Children are apparently capable of more complex thoughts than you remember.
I felt then, and for that matter feel now, that it is adding insult to
injury to be forced to recite a pledge praising "freedom and justice for
all" if one is not allowed to vote.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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