From: Patrick Wilken (patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:52:23 MDT
>Make no mistake: he said more than that. He said he thought it
>was OK for other parents to use /my money/ to teach their kids
>silly and dangerous things. Here's the exact quote:
So? He's a politician. Their whole existence is based on creating laws and
spending other people's money. A bad thing: No argument there.
I was responding to Kathryn's mail suggesting that it was a bad thing that
he was saying that locals should decide what they teach. Freedom implies
that stupid people are free to do stupid things.
ciao, patrick
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Patrick Wilken
Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness
Board Member: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/
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