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

[Max More]

At 09:37 AM 10/11/2005, you wrote:


>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.

Are you *deliberately* misinterpreting what I'm saying?

The Principle of Rational Thinking says NOTHING about what public 
schools can or cannot do. As such, it is entirely non-political.

MM