14th August 2005, 8:23 PM
It's a hard call... On the one hand, I enjoy liberty and the idea of life ownership. On the other hand, people hurting each other is certainly to be discouraged...
Here's my idea. More education involving the parents. To that end, let's instate a "child bearing liscense". People who want to reproduce have to take a test of basic competency in order to be allowed to :D. If they fail the test, they don't get the liscense. Also, they have to leave a few things with the department...
Basically, parents can't go around teaching their kids garbage like "well ya never know" or "well ya gotta do the things and with the aliens and "logic" is just an opinion", or, and this is the worst, "you really don't have to worry about education, I never bothered studying and I did alright, now you get your brother and get back in the trailer!". Endless cycles of hate sure are a problem, but the real issue is this endless cycle of ignorance...
Oh, there's something you should know about a few of the alternative energy sources... Currently, all of them require more energy to process than they actually yield. Crude oil uses less energy to process than it yields. As a result, if we go with methanol, for example, the energy needed has to come from somewhere, so we end up pulling a lot of energy from power plants for the purpose of powering portable things like cars. That poses a problem...
Here's my idea. More education involving the parents. To that end, let's instate a "child bearing liscense". People who want to reproduce have to take a test of basic competency in order to be allowed to :D. If they fail the test, they don't get the liscense. Also, they have to leave a few things with the department...
Basically, parents can't go around teaching their kids garbage like "well ya never know" or "well ya gotta do the things and with the aliens and "logic" is just an opinion", or, and this is the worst, "you really don't have to worry about education, I never bothered studying and I did alright, now you get your brother and get back in the trailer!". Endless cycles of hate sure are a problem, but the real issue is this endless cycle of ignorance...
Oh, there's something you should know about a few of the alternative energy sources... Currently, all of them require more energy to process than they actually yield. Crude oil uses less energy to process than it yields. As a result, if we go with methanol, for example, the energy needed has to come from somewhere, so we end up pulling a lot of energy from power plants for the purpose of powering portable things like cars. That poses a problem...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)