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To: koan who wrote (421009)	10/17/2019 4:39:16 PM
From: cosmicforce	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541778

Sorry I won't let this go... it is just so utterly untrue and shocking to me. No!, education is no panacea - but am I against it? Certainly not. But it isn't for everyone - most people need life skills and not stories from Greek mythology. I look at the world and most of the emerging world is a bigger threat to themselves and outsiders than they were when they were ignorant. Education CAN lead to rationalization and cruelty. Did Nazis have no colleges? Is that what made them incinerate people? They had lots of universities and good ones. Edward Teller - no slacker but not one ounce of humility or compassion in the man. We tolerate and accumulate weapons that would dwarf what any people could do centuries ago on a per person basis. There is more institutionalization of the violence which makes people immune to the consequences they don't see. There are educated people in the ME that share violent ideas with technology, building bombs to kill us and themselves, all requiring sophisticated knowledge of electronics and programming, often having gone to European or American schools. They might aspire to have more education so they could kill even better, using CRISPR or other technologies to end the world. But we have those people too. A guy in Nevada shooting people on the ground with a drone is no better (and in fact more indiscriminate) than an ignorant horseman in Afghanistan 100 years ago who'd lop your head off for fun. And the guy in Nevada often has a college degree, often a liberal arts degree. The military gives you the job training - you don't have to be a science major.. Consider this - I go to a tribe and bring some "magic" (medicine) with me. I set up a process where I only give it to people who do me favors (sex, food, something else) - old people or children - I let them die. What tribe would let me live amongst them? None. But that is our "educated" system of medicine. We live in THAT society. We tolerate pharma sales reps who perpetuate THAT society. And there are college educated people who are anti-welfare, anti-healthcare, anti-jobs programs, anti-vaxers or believing in a flat Earth while talking on cell phones connected to satellites. I'm glad it is your make-believe blanket of comfort - if only it worked. Lithium salts have a better chance of making people nicer than education alone would. But social activities can - bringing someone a meal or talking down a crazy person who is about to get shot. That is just human kindness - no degree required.