Tracy ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I think it largely is a moral question.
I'm wondering how I sit with this. I have some notion of "social virtue" that's different from "personal morality" - and the latter has the higher rung on my set of choices. But the social virtue is not unconsidered or unweighted.
And for many people that distinction would be useless anyway since their politics are personal and vice versa.
Point of order -- people have been stupid, easily misled, and willingly manipulated for as long as we've had democracy, and a lot longer. Demagoguery is not a new word.
Sure. And it's easier to mislead uneducated people. The more we neglect the schools the more sheeplike the populace.
Also, taken historically, if we could quantify education as N number of kids learning S number of skills and X number of other things (perspectives, facts, exposure to new ideas both practical and impractical), I bet that we still come out winning at this late date. Lots more people in the 18th-19th C signed their legal papers by making an X, because they couldn't write their names, than do now.
And they could make a living, not so much the case today. Education is even more important now -- toss that adjustment in too.
That's when you say Screw this, I'm taking care of my kid, and I consider that a completely moral response.
Yes. It's still judged on a moral continuum though-- I can't agree that schooling decisions are purely pragmatic.
I'm wondering how I sit with this. I have some notion of "social virtue" that's different from "personal morality" - and the latter has the higher rung on my set of choices. But the social virtue is not unconsidered or unweighted.
Personal morality outside of my nears and dears is of little interest to me short of illegal behavior that harms others. Marry six women or a goat as long as they're all consenting adults. Social virtue of others is of far more concern to me.
What is the age of consent for a goat?
Not sure, but violating it is ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-d
What is the age of consent for a goat?
Well, as long as it's not a kid....
African or Asian goat?
Sorry, try as I might, I can't say that sending my child to public school is a moral obligation. I think that access to education is a moral issue, but that's another matter.
I can't say that sending my child to public school is a moral obligation
I don't even remotely see how it can be, especially if you're afforded the ability to better the publich school system without having any immediate skin (so to speak) in the game.
The word "moral" lost all meaning to me a long time ago. What does it mean to you all?