[extropy-chat] Extropy, Political Viewpoint and the Futureof ExI'sList

[Dirk Bruere]

On 10/11/05, Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:
>
> At 08:53 AM 10/11/2005, you wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Some of your points below are accurate, but
> > > others are really stretching things, especially on "Rational
> > > Thinking"
> >
> >Really? So you advocate teaching intelligent design in public schools?
> >Or do you insist on rational thinking, that only reasoned scientific
> >theories of universal and human development be taught?
>
> I don't insist on *anything* being taught in public schools. In
> *private* schools I would certain recommend most strongly against
> teaching intelligent design, but I wouldn't *require* anything unless
> I owned such a school. That's about as non-political as it's possible to
> get.


!!!!!!!?
You are surely joking! or have you been mixing too much in Libertarian
circles?
Just about every national government on the planet would disagree - and many
of them would put you in their local Gulag for saying so.
It is a *highly* political statement.
Try popping over to China and mouthing off about the freedom of Falun Gong
to teach in their own schools...
Dirk
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