RE: are you left,right or centre?
January 6, 2010 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2010 at 6:51 pm by Purple Rabbit.)
(January 6, 2010 at 5:51 pm)Meatball Wrote: You think children should choose their own schools?No. But would you not have a fair chance at a proper education, even when you were born in a muslim family?
(January 6, 2010 at 5:51 pm)Meatball Wrote: Do you really think a 5 year old child can choose his education under any system?No, and I did not suggest that. I suggested there is a responsibilty of society as a whole to ensure basic opportunities for all members of society. As a consequence society should put in place basic structures and monitoring. You seem to assume a perfect dichotomy and conflict of interests between society and the individual. But imo society is the collective of individuals, the individuals make the choices together aiming at maximizing opportunities from who all can benefit, it's like symbiosis not like permanent war.
Also, if it's all that important to choose the right religion and to choose it independently as an individual then why mark the children before they are able to make free indepedent decisions. That's not providing opportunity.
(January 6, 2010 at 5:51 pm)Meatball Wrote: Do you not think a grown adult should choose his child's education?Do you really mean that the freedom you're talking about entails that the all-important choice about religion is not a choice of you but of your parents?
(January 6, 2010 at 5:51 pm)Meatball Wrote: A politician should do this instead?No. The kid should be given the opportunity to make a free choice when he can. That means giving him
a broad view on all aspect of religion without the indoctrination part.
(January 6, 2010 at 5:51 pm)Meatball Wrote: We should trust people to make their own decisions. It doesn't matter if they make shitty decisions. They deserve the freedom to make mistakes.In no time the world would be ruled by morons. Is this even feasible in traffic:
Man crashes into people on the pavement and kills several in the act.
Man: oops, I made a shitty decision there
Police: That's allright man, it's your decision, that's what counts. Those people evidently chose to be there themselves when you scooped them.
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0