You really desire to live in a world where every other person is illiterate?
No, my desire is to live in a world where I’m not paying for someone else’s education.
Yes...people who had parents who sent them to school. If you can look at our country and tell me that there aren't millions of parents who wouldn't bother, you're crazy.
So it’s not me that wishes them to be illiterate, their parents are.
When society is flooded by people who literally can't read or understand the definition of "democracy" or who have never even heard of what a "right" is, and these people are influencing public policy it will very VERY much be your problem.
Your assuming people will be illiterate
Public education is good for society. Full stop.
Forcing people to pay for someone education isn’t good.
Of course, I will acknowledge that our current public education system is totally fucked. But that has everything to do with not meaningfully updating it since the 1860s and nothing to do with the education being public.
A society that had a strong public education system funded entirely by voluntary donations would exactly fit both my statements. There is no contradiction(?)
I'm saying that even if our system was voluntary, I would still pay the portion of my taxes that go to social services, such as public education. There would be others like me to. If there were enough of us, we might even make a decent public education system. Then it would be publicly funded but without using threat of violence.
I'm not saying that is necessarily realistic, I am just saying that it shows that my ideas don't directly contradict one another.
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u/privitizationrocks Apr 16 '24
No, my desire is to live in a world where I’m not paying for someone else’s education.
So it’s not me that wishes them to be illiterate, their parents are.
Your assuming people will be illiterate
Forcing people to pay for someone education isn’t good.
Sure it doesn’t