Re: The Cost of Relativity

From: Bilge (dubious_at_radioactivex.lebesque-al.net)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:27:57 -0000

 Robert J. Kolker:
>
>
>Androcles wrote:
>
>> Of course they are not. They are very useful, but what does that have to do
>> with wasting money on relativity?
>
>For a company that either puts up, maintains or uses GPS, relativity is
>not a waste. However that may be, no public funds should be expended to
>scientic work unless it is explicitly and completely for the purpose of
>making weapons for the military or police. One might argue that medical
>research for preventing contagions fall under the rubric of national or
>community defense.

  Why should the military or the police be an exception? There is no
difference between what you see as a justifiable expenditure of public
funds and what anyone else sees as justifiable, other than personal
preference.

>Anything else ought to be strictly private. What people spend their own
>money on is by definition not a waste to -them, the rightful owners of
>the money-.

   Simply by replacing ``making weapons for the military or police'' with
what anyone else considers a justifiable reason to collect taxes and spend
public money, your exact reasoning could be used by everyone in the world.
So-called conservatives and liberals have exactly the same philosophy. The
only difference is the implementation and choice of misleading cliches
used to peddle the same philosophy to others who identify with the type of
individual to whom the cliches are targeted.

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