[geeks] education systems around the world

[hike]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Mike Meredith wrote:
>
>  I'm not sure why you're blaming the UN for the cost of this right.
>>
>
> I'm not.  I'm blaming the UN for diluting the word "right" by applying it
> to nonsense like this.
>
> I believe that people have two rights, but they are very expansive:
>
>  I.    All humans have the right to assert control (and accept the
>        consequences of that control) over their lives, their bodies,
>        their minds, and their properties, so long as it causes no other
>        human damage to his body, mind, life or property without informed
>        consent.
>
>  II.   All humans have their right to defend their rights from
>        infringement, or surrender them, should they see fit.
>        Consequently, all humans have the right to defend their lives,
>        bodies, minds, and properties from damage to which they did not
>        consent.
>
> You can synthesize a lot from that: freedom of speech, equality on the
> basis of religion or heritage, etc.
>
> The right to a free anything that requires effort from someone else,
> however, doesn't follow.
>
>
so, you are an anarchist, huh?