[ExI] Political Relativism

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 16:53:18 UTC 2020


On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:55 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 30/12/2020 22:30, bill w wrote:
> > As for military service, I have always liked Heinlein's idea:  after
> > high school a two year commitment to service.  It could be military,
> > or Peace Corps (does that still exist?  Haven't heard of it for a long
> > time), or some other payback, as he says, to the country that provided
> > a free education.
>
> Well, that's an idea that deserves consideration, but only once the
> country in question actually does provide free education!
> (by which I mean higher education, not the basic education which every
> country needs to provide. There's no argument to 'payback' that, it's
> already in a countries interest to give its citizens a basic education
> (reading and writing, etc.), otherwise it wouldn't be compulsory).
>

The US military does in fact pay for college - not the most expensive Ivy
League schools, but enough for a degree:
https://www.military.com/education/money-for-school/tuition-assistance-ta-program-overview.html
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