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Yes. And all black people are great in basket ball while white men can't jump.
Sweeping generalizations.
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CHOP, CHOP. Germans in general are known as really innovative in science, and truly masterful when it comes to tech. what planet are you from? everyone knows this.
Ja, ja. Just Like the father of the us space program: Wernher Von Braun - not really innovative and an average plumber. Hint: some of the best technical universities are located in Germany.
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They tend more to craftsmen than high tech geniuses. Good producers...well planned and executed. Bit they are not particularly innovative.
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So gun control makes a country intolerant? That's your criteria? That's beyond absurd.
And who ever said that guns ownership is a fundamental property right?
That question will be answered for you if you are ever in a position where you have to defend yourself from harm brought on by another individual(s). Or are you going to say wait...the police will be here any minute with hopes you get to live and tell your story.
As for as homeschooling is concerned, freedom to make personal choices in our lives that effect us directly, is everybody's business, to help sustain those freedoms and knowing we are a country big enough to grant that freedom to others is wonderful.
There are those that want to put their thumbs on people's heads and hold 'em down. Seems like maybe at least on this issue America is not one of them.
Freedom, is everybody's business; keeping them is a battle that never stops.
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You don't even realize how Kafkaesque is your comment here. Of course America as every other republic and every democracy represents the majority and not minority. That's why we have Christian holidays in the calendar and that's why polygamy is illegal even though many minorities would like to see these laws repelled.
This "citizen mob" as you call them are tax paying citizens of UK who have the right to live in a safe country with a murder rate well below the American one. That's why guns are mostly banned in the UK
Ja, ja. Just Like the father of the us space program: Wernher Von Braun - not really innovative and an average plumber. Hint: some of the best technical universities are located in Germany.
That question will be answered for you if you are ever in a position where you have to defend yourself from harm brought on by another individual(s). Or are you going to say wait...the police will be here any minute with hopes you get to live and tell your story.
I have been living in New York for thirty years and never owned a gun and never needed one. No thanks.
The safest big city in the us has very strict gun laws, the safest countries on this planet are the ones where guns are virtually unattainable for an average citizen.
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Originally Posted by actonbell
As for as homeschooling is concerned, freedom to make personal choices in our lives that effect us directly, is everybody's business, to help sustain those freedoms and knowing we are a country big enough to grant that freedom to others is wonderful.
Sure. People should have the right not to teach their kids how to read. Is that I how you understand freedom?
Sure. People should have the right not to teach their kids how to read. Is that I how you understand freedom?
Look, we are left with only two choices. Either parents are free to teach their children whatever they think their children should know, or the government will teach children what the government thinks children should know. Ultimately the question is, who do you trust more? Parents or the government?
I don't trust this government to do absolutely anything. It is a bunch of power-hungry, manipulative sociopaths, who want to turn all the kids into basically loyal citizen lemmings, totally incapable of independent thinking.
I'm sure you are a nationalist, you probably want to force everyone into the military for a couple years when they turn 18. Make them loyal American citizens through government indoctrination. I say, no thank you.
Do I think all parents will do a good job educating their children? Absolutely not. But neither does the government. Even worse, a large percentage of graduates in the governments education system, are actually illiterate. What a totally worthless piece of paper a diploma is(or should be).
The real question in regards to homeschooling is not about quality of education, since homeschoolers on average far exceed others academically. The issue with homeschooling is about assimilation. Hitler made homeschooling illegal in Germany because he felt like the kids who were being homeschooled weren't being assimilated into German society. You know, they weren't being taught state-sanctioned history and world affairs. They weren't being told day-in and day-out how great Germany is, and how bad all those other places are.
Go learn the history of public education in the United States, it really had absolutely nothing to do with education in any real sense. It was always about assimilating our huge number of immigrants. I mean, just go read about the pledge of allegiance. What do you think the pledge of allegiance is for? Your health?
Why would preschoolers be pledging allegiance to anything. They aren't even capable of real logic till they are like eight. Its all about state-control. Turning you into that loyal lemming. No thanks.
Look, we are left with only two choices. Either parents are free to teach their children whatever they think their children should know, or the government will teach children what the government thinks children should know. Ultimately the question is, who do you trust more? Parents or the government?
One look inside an average Walmart or a bar provides an obvious answer.
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I don't trust this government to do absolutely anything. It is a bunch of power-hungry, manipulative sociopaths, who want to turn all the kids into basically loyal citizen lemmings, totally incapable of independent thinking.
Oh. So you are an anarchist, that explains all. You believe that the government, changing from democratic to republican every 8 or so years is in any case out there to get you. Got it now.
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