The Fool wrote:
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> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,54782,00.html
>
> Disturbing questions #23-25, The very fact that fox would suggest these
> things, and that they got such high yes percentages.
>
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> Residents of the United States must pass a test to obtain a driver's
> license before being allowed to drive a motor vehicle. Do you think
> residents should also be required to pass a test before being allowed to:
> SCALE: 1. Yes 2. No 3. (Not sure)
> Yes No (Not sure)
> 23. Buy a gun? 77% 18 5
> 24. Become a parent? 37% 54 9
> 25. Register to vote? 47% 48 5
Sure, why not? In general, the "tests" tend to be pretty
silly since they have to be structured so that everyone can
eventually pass them. But properly done they would insure at
least a minimal amount of knowledge, and give people time to
think things over.
That said, only the buying a gun test would fly. One
has a right to have children and to vote, and it would be too
easy for the tests to become a way to deny certain people those
rights. (Tests were used to deny Blacks the right to vote.
Whites were exempt, the original source of the phrase
"grandfather clause".)
Back on topic, does anyone recall the Brin story
_Piecework_, from _Otherness_?
---David
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