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- From: akins@gecko.cis.ohio-state.edu (gregory adkins)
- Subject: Re: Is it OK to be stupid?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.045511.2270@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
- References: <qZP6VB4w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:55:11 GMT
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- In article <qZP6VB4w165w@cybrspc.UUCP> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
- >
- >Why don't people have a right to be stupid?
- .
- >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?
- .
- >Why must we protect people from themselves? What does it gain the
- >the many to protect the one?
- .
- .
- I agree. Isn't this one of the tenants of Anarchism.
- No government and consequently no laws should exist.
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- Any necessary cooperation among people will come from necessity
- (ie: the smart ones figuring out what they need and the stupid
- people dying out as they fail to adapt)
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- In other words, legalize murder and be smart enough
- to carry a gun.
-
- As Ben Franklin said, "Anyone who values temporary safety
- more than personal freedom, deserves neither safety nor freedom"
-
- -greg -> akins@cis.ohio-state.edu
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