On 5/30/04 10:03 AM Bill McIntyre at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. >>I know Chris disagrees but I feel only proper education is going to >>reduce significantly these spammers. > >But what does "proper education" mean? We old farts (and that includes >me) may rail against the constant downward slide in our society's values, >but people have been doing that for hundreds of years. Do you expect the >public education system to work a miracle on kids who's parents don't >model good values for them? My wife teaches advanced placement US History >in a high school in an upper middle class mostly white ghetto, so these >kids are in many ways the cream of the crop- the ones trying to get into >Harvard, Stanford, etc., and many of these kids will cheat on exams and >homework if they can get away with it. > >Eliminating spamming, cheating, stealing, etc. involves changing the >entire value system of a society. I don't know how that can be done, but >I think it will require something beyond "proper education," whatever >that means. All societies have always had people who exhibit anti-social >behavior, and no society has fixed it. > >Bill
Hi Bill- This is a complex and comprehensive subject which requires more than one simple email to explain but I will try my best to articulate what I mean by *proper education* and how it will reduce crime. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
