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Posted by: Nikhil Jaikumar ( PCC, MA, USA ) on July 26, 1999 at 17:38:02:

In Reply to: Animal Intelligence. posted by Dr. Cruel on July 23, 1999 at 12:28:27:

: 1) Tobacco products are terrible. They should be banned, and their manufacturers ought to be fined out of existence. "Pot", on the other hand, is quite harmless, and heroin should be legalized (except in Communist countries, where users and dealers ought to be summarily executed. In the name of the people, of course)

Tobacco need not be banned, but it is a scientific fact that it is less addictive and less dangerous than marijuana. marijuana also does not make people aggressive or antisocial, as does alcohol. I oppose the legalization of heroin, however. Heroin is a dangerous drug.

: 2) Women ought to be encouraged to raise their children without fathers. These males, and corporate institutions, should be compelled to pay a 'support fee' to some organization, run by Leftists, that would then decide on how much of this cash should be forwarded on to the mother and child(ren). These Leftist ought to be well paid for this service.

Nobody I know advocates this. What we do believe is that the government should not be in the business of regulating family structure, because family composition varies from culture to culture. What's wrong with fathers paying child support, by the way? And the social workers I know would resent your implication of being "well paid". our society seems to ahve mroe than enough to devote to weapons of war, but when it comes to funding social spending, suddenly the coffers seem to dry up.

: 3) The U.S. should unilaterally disarm their military forces, in particular their nuclear weapons. They ought not to react to any crisis anywhere in the world, unless it threatens a Communist state, in which of course they should send aid wholeheartedly to fight the 'fascist aggressors'. Any resulting genocides are the responsibility of faulty U.S. policy, of course.

No nation ought to have nuclear weapodn- not india, not China, not America. And exactly when has teh US defended a Communist state from fascist aggression? if my memory serves me, they INSTIGATED the fascist aggression in Nicaragua, Chile, Mozambique, Guatemala, etc. As for genocides, exactly what are you refrring to? Cambodia was not Communist, Nicaragua, never committed any genocide, and although teh Vietnamese certainly did go overboard with their reprisals after the war, these actions were mroe likely the outgrowth of the regrettable human instinct for revenge than of any Communist program.

: 4) Predatory animals should be released near residential areas. Laws should be enacted to respond to any locals who might object to this, and attempt to harm said creatures. This is to be done to 'preserve ecological balance' or somesuch. Firebreaks are not to be cut in heavily forested areas, because this 'disturbs the natural balance'.

are you perhaps talking about wolves? I'm no expert, but aren't teh stories about wolevs attacking humans simply myths? And if an area is supposed to be "natural", how can we jsutify human intervention to prevent forest fires?

: 5) Only approved Left-wing advocates may be allowed to teach in the public schools. No testing or other means are to be used to deduce the qualifications of said advocates. No alternate system will be allowed to exist that might make use of public funding, under any circumstances. Instruction based on factual data, or that involve the hard sciences, are exploitative plots arranged by highly placed capitalists, and are to be strictly curtailed - in favor of condom training, ecology pseudoscience, the benevolence of the Left, etc. Time from school might be used to assist the local teacher's union, during strikes or protests, as a form of 'field instruction' or 'public service'.

Can I have some evidence? i never once had a "Leftist" teacher in public school. the only political "instruction" i ever received in public school was when a substitute teacher began railing about teh evils of Communism and the glories of President Nixon. After sixth grade I went to a private school where I had a wide variety of teachers inclduing a libertarian, a bron-again Christian, a socialist, some liberals, a conservative.....

: Meanwhile, I am told to abstain from fast foods from McDonald's. I wonder - if an 'approved' fast food institution, run by representatives from Hanoi, were to set up shop in my town, would there be the same level of 'insightful and concerned inquiry' conducted against them?

But Hanoi doesn't run larhge-scale, predatroy commercial enterprises. that is like saying "If a frog had wings....." you know the rest of it.




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