On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David B. Shemano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeez, if I was Jim Devine I would be offended how you were speculating about 
> my views.  However, since I am not Jim Devine, feel free to speculate away 
> and then speculate how I woiuld respond to your rebuttal.
>

Sorry if I offended you, but I was not speculating at all. Your
earlier mail presented an interrogative that strongly implied a
conclusion but left it unsaid. I just stated it explicitly.


> In the meantime, I am just making a common sense observation.  I would think 
> that if you were about to advocate an education campaign to achieve a goal, 
> you would want to consider the realistic chances of success, and one 
> important data point would be to consider how people actually act.  I mean, I 
> don't think it takes a lot of "education" to convince people to like 
> chocolate, sex, vacations in Hawaii, but convincing my kids to practice the 
> piano, do their homework, etc. is often a real struggle
>

I am certainly not advocating any mass-education campaign. I think a
mass-uneducation campaign to help us all unlearn and unindoctrinate
everything we were taught would be a much better idea - if we knew how
to do it.
-raghu.
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