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- From: snarf@access.digex.com (Sean Eustis)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Is it OK to be stupid?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:22:29 GMT
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- In article <qZP6VB4w165w@cybrspc.UUCP> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
- >A point raised in the CNID thread has got me thinking. That's always a
- >dangerous condition, but I'll try to survive it.
- >
- >So, let me ask ya something...
- >
- >Why don't people have a right to be stupid?
- >
- >We have equality guaranteed for purposes of race, national origin,
- >religion, and in some cases, sex and even sex preference. We have
- >opportunity guaranteed to even the most (oh, what's the PC term for it?)
- >"challenged" of our citizens.
-
- Just in case you're wondering, I believe the current term is
- Developmentally Disabled.
-
- >We won't let people be stupid. What's the deal?
- >
- >Aren't we, by supporting the naturally stupid ones, hampering our
- >evolution? Isn't natural selection _supposed_ to weed out the weak,
- >unfit members of the species?
- >
- >If Joseph Q. Six-pack is not bright enough to realize he's handing out a
- >phone number, so what? He might also drive without a seat belt.
- >(that's against the law) He might also smoke cigarettes. (a prime
- >example of a genuinely stupid thing to do) He likely doesn't make the
- >connection between the misspelled name on the TV Guide, and the similar
- >misspellings in 60% of his junk mail. In short, this is not a together
- >person.
- [stuff deleted to conserve time and bandwith]
-
- Answer, because it is garunteed not only by the bill of rights, but also
- by a secondary nature of humans to look out for/U B~ each other.
- The reason that the elite don't crush the weak is because they are
- neccessarry to provide a rescource of workers that make the products that
- the masses buy that makes a profit, that trickles down to the masses and
- then again back up to the elite.
- It's real complicated and I've probably got it wrong.
-
- > [portions of the
- preceeding program were
- brought to you by caffiene withdrawl symptoms]
-
- I thought it might be. :-)
- Mine is a messed up sleep schudule.
-
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