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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (348)	1/11/2001 12:54:05 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

So much said there. balance of terror where no one but a madman would consider the nuclear option. The madmen are out there. Aren't a number of religious fanatics including not only muslims who believe they go to heaven when they die for god, and fundamentalist christians who believe the scenario in the LeHaye Armageddon Books, precisely invested in destruction? They'd call it the inevitable fulfillment of prophesy and god's will. My son got the series from his grandparents. "Over 10,000,000 copies are sold." That's a hell <G> of a lot of people wanting to go to god. armageddonbooks.com

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (348)	1/11/2001 9:23:54 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Why not not base this on intelligence rather than economics? Intelligence is not so easy to measure, and it is by no means the only operative factor in academic or other accomplishment. While you are giving equal opportunity to your second-best, what are your competitors in the world going to do? If you believe that the "second best" are inherently inferior, than of course it is a waste of time to provide them with education. If you believe that a fair number of them are potentially productive individuals that happen to have been born into a very shitty life, which was hardly their fault, I would think that competitive concerns would make us want to do everything possible to help them overcome their initial disadvantages and be as productive as they can be.