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- From: nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau)
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.042309.25048@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
- References: <1gc05sINNq1u@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec12.211457.21469@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1gdnomINN3or@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 04:23:09 GMT
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- In article <1gdnomINN3or@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >
- >You raise the example of education - a fine one. Education is
- >a public good; public goods cannot be financed by anything
- >other than forcible theft. And because my education was
- >financed thus I have an obligation to so finance other peoples'.
-
- Then our "disagreement" may come down to defining education. In brief,
- education isn't restricted to the schools - education comes in many
- forms, including reasonable access to a number of artistic voices
- (and not just those that happen to be profitable this week).
-
- Of course, not everyone will benefit - but then, some people come out
- of the schools still illiterate. An imperfect process, to be sure, but
- then, all the system can do is provide the opportunities . . .
-
- The Rhealist - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself
-