Mike Duvos says:
Perry E. Metzger <perry@imsi.com> writes:
A society that forceably prevents fundamentalists from brainwashing their children also has the right tools to keep me from explaining to my children why government is evil and why there is no god.
The cure for brainwashing is not to silence the brainwasher, but to make sure the intended victim is exposed to a wide variety of other viewpoints. We can cure the children of Fundamentalists quite easily without preventing their parents, or you for that matter, from expressing any point of view you choose.
This may be so, but I am unsure that I have any interest in spending energy in attempting to "cure" people of their views. Its not my place to tell people what to think, and I'm uncertain that a society that makes it easy to perform such "cures" is necessarily one that I want to live in. Perhaps society would wish to "cure" my children of their views. Frankly, I don't CARE if fundamentalists brainwash their children. I want to be left alone myself, and I'm perfectly willing to leave them alone, too. I'm not so interested in running my neighbors lives, nor am I so perfect that I am capable of running theirs as well as my own. So long as they grant me the same respect they can tell their children that Jesus levitates at all times thirty stories above the Royal Albert Hall for all I care. I just don't want them telling ME what to do and think. Understand that I disagree with Zooks' proposal to impose a censorship structure on the net. I merely ALSO disagree with the flood of opinions that seem to say that he doesn't have the right to raise his children as he sees fit. If he wants to only let them see sanitized net traffic, let him find a service to provide that to his children. I am not interested in interfering in his life. I ask the same respect from him, but thats all. Perry