Re: Attorney generals trying to shut down usenet?

On Jun 16, 6:19 pm, James Arthur <bogusabd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...privately or home schooled ...]
Would you exempt them from public school taxes, or,
by force, make them pay for public schools they don't use?
Isn't that imposing on their liberty in a most egregious
way?

No it isn't. My taxes go to pay for many services I will never need.
I am male so the odds of me getting pregnant are darn close to zero.
I live up a fairly major slope so if my house ever flooded we would be
in serious trouble. I don't drive on many of the highways I am forced
to pay for.


You're passing a moral judgement here: you'd decide (or
have government decide) which parents are fit to raise
their own kids. That's monstrous. Can't you see that?

It defies imagination that any parent so motivated could
be worse than the public schools, even if they tried.

You have a *very* weak imagination or you have seen only a very small
section of mankind if you can't imagine parents doing far worse than
the public schools. As a society, we take children away for seriously
bad parents all the time. Can't you imagine parents that are not bad
enough to have their children removed by only a small margin.

We decide these sorts of things all the times as a society. We don't
let bad parents impose their evil will upon their children. Someones
children are their charge not their property.


And it's not in the public interest to deny them. The
home-schoolers I've known have all been _lightyears_
ahead of their public (or private) school counterparts.

How many have you known?
.

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