-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 15 May 1996, Jim McCoy wrote: :Yes, he is. It is times like this that I must count myself among the :pitchfork and torch wielding mob, if only because I have been cursed :with a small amount of compassion for those who were not as lucky as I. Compassion requires direction as well. It seems as if you're suggesting that your goals are laudable simply because they manifest compassion regardless of their effectiveness. The argument being made was that the state is extraordinarily inefficient at providing education (unless you consider west point education). Of course it's entirely possible that you don't believe the axiom "I am generous, I am morally superior, the rest of you are narcissist selfish capitalist pigs. I have feeling for the poor and I want to help them any way I can, even if those methods are ineffective". But it doesn't sound like it. Once again, the argument being made was regarding inefficiency, _not_ compassion or lack thereof. I can have lots of compassion and still believe that handing pink fluffy teddy bears out at street corners is going to do anyone any good. :BTW Mr. Avon, the reason we, the unruly mob of collectivists, socialists, and :[insert libertarian/anarchist buzzword here] should stick a gun in your :back and make you cough up money for education is because we can. If you :don't want to do so, they why don't _you_ move? Are your feet cast in :concrete blocks? That argument can be made on a local level. Not when there are federal mandates requiring public schools and their funding by local govts. Voting with you feet is a reasonable way to permit regional govts. to compete with each other (like in Europe, or between the states). People only make as major a decison as moving from a large country like the US if there is some extremely pressing need, genocide is a good candidate. hostmaster@trill-home.com * Trills 4 thrills * Blue-Ribbon * Lynx 2.5 "Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *can* you believe?!" -- Bullwinkle J. Moose [Jay Ward] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMZunLhwDKqi8Iu65AQHg2AL+PJ86PA4GATCcx9BG2fyROSbp2nf8LqNg syYNPHPp+XnJRd6ldUy+A0dL84AtDfA0cKCiNBvSSpd/T05jKpXIuc8dlfiF6skT GAB7TunZI5tQJTlL4n05ooJGfvqM10k9 =fMFg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----