Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!emory!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!fsu1.cc.fsu.edu!otto From: otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (John Otto) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Amendments Message-ID: <1991May2.203254.3204@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Date: 3 May 91 01:02:49 GMT References: <4364.2816d635@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <1991Apr26.141044.7544@alphalpha.com> <1991Apr29.001738.1233@alphalpha.com> Reply-To: otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu Organization: Florida State University Lines: 26 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 In article <1991Apr29.001738.1233@alphalpha.com>, nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes... >In article <1991Apr28.061119.18402@eecs.nwu.edu> ptownson@eecs.nwu.edu (Patrick A. Townson) writes: >>I wish you would recall that it is supposed to be 'we the people' who >>do the governing, make the laws and decide how things are done ... why >>aren't we allowed to do it any longer? > >Well actually, "we" never were. But my main fear is simply that the >majority of us are far too uneducated and short-sighted. That's an >incredibly elitist view of course, and I'm torn. I'd like to see >a real democracy, but I don't think that democracy without education >can work. But maybe I'm wrong. So, let's start educating. I'm game. >-- >Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix >nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere >617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com > >I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept >responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate >everyone else's. I would like the sig quote better if I hadn't started running into more and more people with imagined responsibilities and implicit agreements which never were... John G. Otto jgo@fsu.bitnet jgo@rai.cc.fsu.edu