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Switzerland bans (new) minarets

I would vote to ban new minarets
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It is religious persecution to ban minarets, and therefor is wrong
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Post by Leisher »

How does everyone get a voice and be fair.


Honestly? If we really wanted to be fair, everyone WOULDN'T get a voice.
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You just honestly might have a point. Now how are we fair on choosing who gets to make the rules. Heh.
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unkbill wrote:I don't care to get into a long drawn out argument with you about this but I'm a taxpayer to. Isn't it the same as saying your tax dollars are more important than mine.
Maybe, maybe not.

If you want to make it fair, then ALL religions must be represented (no matter how stupid). If you assign each game a seperate religion to pray to (plus one for Agnostics and one for Atheists and one for Secular Humanists, etc etc etc) then maybe we could talk. Otherwise isn't it the same as saying your religions is more important than all the others?

Simpliest to leave religion to the churches, and do something else with the schools. Like, maybe, teach someone something.
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TPRJones wrote:Like, maybe, teach someone something.
I'm pretty convinced that teaching is the last thing the gov't wants schools to do. Otherwise, they'd pour enough cash into them to attract decent teachers. They'd start holding schools to reasonable standards instead of fucking stupid boilerplate fill-in-the-circle exams.

If the citizenry really got smart, they'd realize how the folk in charge were fucking them over. That's bad juju if you work in D.C. (or any state or local gov't, probably).
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Malcolm wrote:
TPRJones wrote:Like, maybe, teach someone something.

I'm pretty convinced that teaching is the last thing the gov't wants schools to do.

Nah, I disagree. That is what they want schools to do, they're just way too stupid to realize that schooling is not preperly built for that. The entire structure of modern education is just about as boring as it can be, which coupled with rigid scheduling is effective in turning out factory workers that can work boring jobs for hours a day.

The problem is our economy is not built on those jobs anymore. And schools can't teach anything worthwhile to the new economy. But the government is run by old people who won't understand anything I just said, so it won't be fixed until later, when the economy has changed again and we'll be too late to be able to make schooling relevant. The rate of social and technological change has surpased the maximum rate at which government can successfully react.

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Need those little A/V teaching pits like on planet Vulcan.
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TPRJones wrote:The rate of social and technological change has surpased the maximum rate at which government can successfully react.
The land speed of glaciers & erosion of mountains both exceed the rate at which our government can successfully react.
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