From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 18:32:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Edited Edupage, 9 May 1996
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On 14 May 96 at 10:57, Doug Hughes wrote:

> I wouldn't normally respond to such an offtopic post, but this post
> is so egregious I couldn't let it pass. 

You should have... 

> Who says they make a choice
> to live in rural areas? 

Why? were they lobotomized?

> Do they also choose not to have enough money
> to pay for shoes?

You got to choose to do what is needed to live a better life.  And 
most of them ain't doing what it takes.

> So, because they live in a poor district they are
> not entitled to the same level of education as a rich city suburb? 
> The illiteracy rate in Alabama is 40%! This is just plain sick!

When I was a kid, everything that had characters printed on it was 
readable.  Who is *preventing* them from reading?

> But the statement that we shouldn't subsidize
> rural customers because they CHOOSE to live there (even though some
> are poor and can't afford to live anywhere else) is just plain
> fallacious.
Please, substantiate your claims with in-context arguments.

> Just because you choose to live in the city does not
> mean people always choose to live where they live.
Who cast their feet in concrete blocks?


> Education is one
> thing (perhaps the only thing) that deserves to be subsidized in
> this country. 
I think that it should not be subsidized.
If you feel like subsidising education, then by all means, do it.  
But why should you stick a gun in my back to do the same?  What if I 
do not want to do the same as you?

> the tone of
> the above message is callous, besides being wrong.
In *my* opinion, it is right on the money.  But if you can stand 
reality, then I understand why you rant...

BTW, I do not understand the "logics" that want to bring everybody 
down because some individuals are down.  This is a system that punish 
achievement for being achievement and value meekness for itself.
A total, anti-life aberration.


JFA
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