Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Communism Summary: Really Re: mutual incomprehension Message-ID: <2380@geac.UUCP> Date: 4 Mar 88 13:16:58 GMT Article-I.D.: geac.2380 Posted: Fri Mar 4 08:16:58 1988 Expires: 4 Mar 88 13:16:57 GMT Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) Distribution: ont Organization: The Geac Debating Society Lines: 35 In article <5486@watdragon.waterloo.edu> hwarkentyne@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Kenneth Warkentyne) writes: >> .... In a (quasi) capitalist society such as ours, >>there are people who are prepared to work hard for their success and >>are happy, those who aren't prepared to work hard and are happy, and >>those who aren't prepared to work hard but aren't happy. ... >In article <303@brambo.UUCP> morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones) writes in response to Kenneth Warkentyne: >I think that all of us agree that every human being has the right to >have an equal chance to succeed in life. Actually, I don't think everyone should have an equal chance to succeed. Specifically, I don't think the nice little retarded boy next door should have the same chance to succeed as the bright girl down the block. I realize that isn't what you meant to say, you did specify "if one has the aptitude regardless of how much money one has". However, attempting to equalize opportunity by governmental fiat means that the definitions have to be pinned down to a really **remarkable** degree, or you get a suite of well-meaning civil servants doing their very best to equalize **success**. This exact problem existed for several generations in one of the larger "leveling" societys in this world, and fell out of favor only when the ruling class realized it was interfering with their passing on their positions to their children... the so-called "new class". I'd really rather keep government out of the business of making value judgements: they do a bad enough job when they deal only with facts! -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.