On Sunday 30 January 2005 11:24 am, Neil Schneider wrote: > Todd Walton said: > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:07:28 -0800, Tracy R Reed > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Have you watched BBC? Sometimes I wish we had something like this in > >> the > >> US whenever I turn on the TV and see another brain numbing reality > >> program. > > > > The quality of BBC programming doesn't justify forcing the citizens of > > the UK to support it if they don't want to. Turn off your TV. > > The citizens of the UK have an option also. If they don't like > supporting the BBC programming, don't buy a TV. Only those who use the > service have to pay for it. If you don't own a TV, then you aren't > taxed. Personally I hate all the commercials that are the funding > method for TV in the U.S. I'd gladly exchange our funding method for > the U.K method, if it meant we would get better quality programming > and far fewer commercials that insult my inteligence. > > -- > Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net
Nobody is forcing the citizens of the UK to do anything but obey the laws. If the citizens of the UK don't like funding the BBC all they have to do is get the laws that provide that funding changed. Your stupid argument could be used against any law that any democracy passes that forces someone to do something that they do not want to do, which is after all the whole point of laws. The fact that changing the law might be difficult, i.e. one cannot muster a majority for ones point of view is beside the point. boblq -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
