Recent content by Diuretic

There's an old saw (sorry) concerning the identification of competencies (in competency-based education) that asks someone to identify, without context, a set of skills. The skills are the ability to (I'm not using cbe phrasing here) screw a flat plate onto a flat surface. We all think...

Yes you were truly prescient :lol: Okay, you have to give me a chance at least, seeing as I was responding to other points. What is your basic point?

I'm just reading Mortime Adler's "How To Read a Book" and he addresses exactly that point in the opening pages. HOW TO READ A BOOK - CH. 1 I'm reading the book, the paper version, not the online one though that's handy, I hate reading lengthy text online. I thought his point about the...

I think that would be a return to the sort of society that most people who went to the American colonies wanted to avoid. I do believe that that would simply reinforce privilege and the privileged classes would see to it that the ho polloi were kept in their place. If I can cite an example...

Interesting that there is an undercurrent of elitism here - I can hear Strauss (Leo not Richard) in the background.

I think because it's called "universal suffrage" it means that it's assumed that everyone of the majority age is entitled to vote. Some may forfeit that right, temporarily, but that doesn't invalidate Toro's argument.

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The Kitty Genovese case came to mind immediately. But there's still some dispute about the public reaction. Some believe that people who heard her screams assumed someone else would call the police. And I remember reading about an experiment involving simulated situations as the one in the...

And English law gave the vote only to landholders or those with property worth more than 20 shillings a year. The struggle for universal suffrage in Britain was long and bloody. I wonder now if Locke came back would he argue that there should be no vote for those who did not have land...

There's a split in the movement! The Loose Tea-ers have split from the Teabags. They're in hot water now! Things have really gone to pot!

The Federalist Papers? Why would you use them as an authority?

How about if you weld them together? :eusa_eh:

"**** all" :lol: You've been living in the UK too long CG :lol:

Just think though - they pay their taxes and they get education, health care, social welfare, the military, law enforcement, roads, clean water etc etc - can you imagine how much you'd have to pay for that lot by yourself??? And now some of them get nice holidays! :lol:

It's a good deal, don't knock it, you pay a bit and you get a lot back :lol: