From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] How do you teach people to think
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:01:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B28D9AE.70B44F44@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010614020335.19148.00003704@ng-fi1.aol.com>
Barry wrote:
> You can't MAKE someone think..... Our Constitution accepts stupidity as
> right.
Not really. The US Constitution imposes structure on the federal
government. Assuming you mean the principles on which the
Constitution is based, it would be much more accurate to say that
they include the right to make one's own decisions insofar as they
don't involuntarily impact on others. That implies stupid
decisions as well as smart ones; the mitigating factors are (1) it
keeps others from deciding for you what is stupid or smart and (2)
so long as you get to suffer the consequences of your decisions,
it is a self-correcting system. To the extent that there is
currently a problem, it's mostly due to attempts to violate (2).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-14 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-12 15:41 Laura Creighton
2001-06-12 19:00 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-06-14 8:57 ` Barry
2001-06-14 13:09 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-06-14 16:01 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-06-14 12:48 presotto
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