KaskadskyjKozak

Are you saying that schools get kickbacks from the military/US gov't for how many students enlist? If that is happening, I oppose that as well. I've never heard of it before. It should be illegal I never said they got kickbacks, but they can (and do) refer students to their services gratis. No judgement there, just establishing that a linkage exists.

I object to military recruiters on high school campuses as well. I did not think that that was the issue we were discussing. Abortion practictioners (and clinics) are referred to by high school counselors, and they do benefit monetarily from their practice.

You grant a child (under age 18) the right to make life and death decision in one case - a decision they can not fully understand - both morally and in terms of possible negative health affects. And this decision can be made without a parent's knowledge or advice. In the other you posit that 18-year old "children" are not capable of deciding whether to serve in the military - a possible life and death decision. They need their parent's wisdom and guidance. The military has only bad intentions; the abortion clinic has only the best of intentions. I just love liberal "logic".

"Why then do contemporary intellectuals feel entitled to the highest rewards their society has to offer and resentful when they do not receive this? Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution "to each according to his merit or value." Orwell put it best: some animals are more equal than others...

18 is the cutoff that society has determined makes a person an adult. Either you are old enough to make decisions for yourself and take responsibility - or you are not. Of course you support parental consent for abortions under age 18, I suppose? Maybe I am wrong, but I thought you had to be 18 to "sign-up". If you are underage, your parents have to sign the papers as well...

Because my graduate coursework had nothing to do with the humanities or soft-sciences. There were right and wrong answers that had nothing to do with politics. And I avoided social conversations geared towards the latter.

Since when is an 18-year-old a child? Give me a break.

In the past, not being applied "equally" meant getting out of having to serve completely. And you're dreaming if you think there is a way to force "equality" of fighting on the front lines. It's not "equal" as it is.

It's the egomaniacs who call attention to the bias and make it so unpalatable. If they went away, the bias would not matter much. I applied for a full-time teaching position at the UW and was not hired - not because of bias, but they preferred a candidate with a PhD to an MS. I taught two courses as a pre-doctoral instructor prior to that and enjoyed it greatly. Unfortunately there are not so many opportunities to teach when universities (i.e. *research* universities) focus more on research and an elite set of researchers, rather than those skilled in *teaching*. My experience as both an undergraduate and a graduate student was that college is more a place where you learn to teach yourself, rather than a place where you are "taught". This was especially true in engineering and the hard-sciences.

I wonder if FDR would have dropped the bomb?

Even if a draft is applied equally, strings will be pulled regarding where/in what capacity draftees are assigned. Not everyone serves a combat role on the front line.

when the US has had a draft, it has led to more loss of life and less restraint, IMO

yeah it works so well for Russia! Israel has mandatory military duty for all citizens - probably a better example than Rossiya.

Canadian Politicians

if you go ad hominem, expect a response

Few members of the left wing would agree with a lot of my opinions on education. For example, I support well-rounded education, including lots of humanities - what the right would consider "useless" or "unnecessary".

Agreed. In other countries, there is a whole different perspective on this AND the politics don't cut the same way as the do in the US, proving that the situation in the US is not necessarily the way it has to be.

fuck you

Nice try, Torquemada.

Intellectuals and academics can be the most selfish, ego-centric, callous people out there. The self-delusioning left cracks me up without fail. Keep stroking your egos and rationalizing your inherent "goodness". Your holier-than-thou self-righteousness rivals that of the most vocal evagelical that you hate so intensely.

I've met just as few liberals who "consider" opinions outside their dogma as conservatives. As for "learning", much of this in higher education demands walking a narrow path of "acceptable" view-points. This is not only true in technology and "hard science", where there is a "right" and a "wrong" answer, but to in the softer social sciences, where subjective grading mandates parroting the opinions of your professor or teaching assistant to succeed.

Nah, let's just make military service mandatory for every war protestor. After they pay their dues fighting for a year or two, then they have the right to protest in good faith.

What he said.

My fallible writing skills, your bias and lack of understanding has allowed you to make an erroneous inference of a conclusion I do not assert. Can you support this hypothesis taking into consideration the political leanings of educational institutions? DeChristo:

Looking for thread drift? As if there aren't enough posts already?