The thing is, our society benefits if all of our children receive an education.
Of course it now looks like you want to make this a case where you either support the Democratic view toward public education or you want to do away with it altogether.
But I thought your statements about how
all society benefits somewhat striking and scary.
We are not talking about a situation where everyone in a country would be killed or enslaved such as when there is no military. We are talking about how some people get together and determine that life would be better for everyone if only the government came in and forced people to do things like pay taxes- right?
So, what if a majority of people thought that the best thing for all of society was teaching the true word of God (whatever it is- Yaweh, Allah, Cuthulu or Krishna) to everyone? If the majority voted it in, or something else like the superiority of white people, then all would have to support it for the common good. Even those that felt differently like myself. Who gets to determine what would be best for everyone- especially when you want to take away the chance for people to choose for themselves what is best for them?
As a matter of fact, but I do believe there are several cases right now of people losing their homes because their local communities thought that all of community would benefit more if their were instead shopping centers where they were. What are the rights of a few home owners when all of society is benefited, eh? That is, as long as it is
someone else that has to give up their home to make where you live a bit richer.
Me, I worry when people try to convince others to sacrifice for the common good. I think people should be free to help out as much or as little as they feel is right and those that want others to sacrifice should lead only by example.
