From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 11:51:54 MDT
>From: "Olga Bourlin" <fauxever@sprynet.com>
>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.
They will find a cure and I will not be able to afford it since
unlike their parents I paid for their education, and these things
aren't free. TANSTAAFL.
In a capitalist economy we aren't all in this together, we are all
in competition. You are asking me to unfairly subsidize my
competition.
On a gentler note, (the list could use a little lately) as a
practicing Zen/Buddhist I am well aware of the interconnectedness
of all things, but as an evolutionist and Extropian, I'm also aware
how any advantage given to an individual has consequences for those
not given that advantage.
My best friend is a millionaire who is in the process of funding
his nieces/nephews college educations, I would like someday to be
in the same position.
>At least children are real. What gets me is the tax break given
>to religious institutions - good money going to fantastical
>supercreatures and good real estate going to the storytellers
>perpetuating the "invisible friend(s)" myths. Where are the
>mental health professionals? (Sadly, some of them frequent the
>House of the Invisible themselves.) Where's the outrage?
We are in complete agreement here. As Frank Zappa said "Tax the
Churches, Tax ALL the Churches".
Brian
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