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Only in America - having guns is a right, but education is a privilege...talk about having it arse backwards...
Hmmm... 1 is for self protection and defense... I think we can agree self defense is a right
The other is for the betterment of one's self or someone in one's care... and we have the right to pursue that, but not have it just handed to you... just as the 2nd amendment gives you the right to keep and bear arms, but not the right to have one provided to you
I don't need a piece of paper to tell me that defense is a right.
I find it strange you need to put it in a document, and if you are going to do that, then why not education, too.
Now, now, now. Don't get me wrong.
I think our leaders SHOULD be "intellectual" to some degree. After all, our Founders were intellectuals! They wrote on politics, law, philosophy, science, agriculture, theology, you name it. They were pretty dang smart and we can profit from what they teach.
That being said, I don't think intellectual SNOBS are what we need, though, especially ones who feel the need to rub their doctorates in everyone's faces, as if not having such a degree means you're lower than an amoeba.
In every communist takeover, the first to go were the educated.
Isn't it odd that Republicans are always saying the liberals are "for" communism yet it's the liberals who are "educated", so obviously, they would be the first to go?
The people that would be left over would be the "Cornfed Confederate Republican Party of Teabags". Republican leaders already know how to control them. With "fear". It's part of their fundraising strategy.
You are so right.
Only the cornfed mentally ill oppose tyranny.
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Then we agree on something? I think. Are you "ill"?
Uh, let me just point out, when the uneducated take over, then that will be tyranny. Nothing like a country run by stupid. Bush showed us that.
Good answer, Dan.
A "right" means that you're automatically entitled to it, no questions asked, no more, no less.
A "privilege" implies a "<so and so authority> giveth and taketh away."
Um, you don't need a psychology degree or even ONE psychology class to interpret basic behavior.Now, now, now. Don't get me wrong.
I think our leaders SHOULD be "intellectual" to some degree. After all, our Founders were intellectuals! They wrote on politics, law, philosophy, science, agriculture, theology, you name it. They were pretty dang smart and we can profit from what they teach.
That being said, I don't think intellectual SNOBS are what we need, though, especially ones who feel the need to rub their doctorates in everyone's faces, as if not having such a degree means you're lower than an amoeba.
I don't know anyone like that. It looks like how you "imagine" people to be rather than how they really are. It's one of the ways Republicans "demonize". It's like saying, "I hate Obama because he's so arrogant. He turns his head sometimes and you can see the side of his nose. So arrogant. Then he shows off with big words and numbers. I just hate his arrogant ways".
Like I said, in a communist takeover, the first to go are always the educated. You would have nothing to fear if I'm reading what you are saying correctly.
Now, now, now. Don't get me wrong.
I think our leaders SHOULD be "intellectual" to some degree. After all, our Founders were intellectuals! They wrote on politics, law, philosophy, science, agriculture, theology, you name it. They were pretty dang smart and we can profit from what they teach.
That being said, I don't think intellectual SNOBS are what we need, though, especially ones who feel the need to rub their doctorates in everyone's faces, as if not having such a degree means you're lower than an amoeba.
Only in America - having guns is a right, but education is a privilege...talk about having it arse backwards...
Good answer, Dan.
A "right" means that you're automatically entitled to it, no questions asked, no more, no less.
A "privilege" implies a "<so and so authority> giveth and taketh away."
Our rights in this country start with the Freedom to do anything as long as you do not infringe on another's Freedom.
Freedom means the right to own Guns (which had to be written into the constitution because it is one of the first rights a free people loose to a tyrannical government ruler. That had to be clarified in the constitution)
Freedom means the right to an Education
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Education is not a right. Access to an education is a privalage that one should take advantage of, and most don't.
Education is neither a right nor a privaledge. According to state constitutions, it's an obligation of the state government.