From: coyo@darkdna.net   
      
   On 7/2/2014 8:54 AM, §ñühwö£f wrote:   
   >   
   > You have more faith in humans ability than I do. But I'm older and more   
   > experienced :)   
      
   It's not so much inexperience, since I've seen some very stupid shit,   
   including the news programming by allegedly genius people on national   
   television, and I have this t-shirt that says, "Make something   
   idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot."   
      
   I've gotten free drinks from managers when I walk in the store wearing   
   that shirt. I don't have any confidence in humanity as it is right now.   
   There's a lot of idiots who can't be saved, and a lot of complete   
   monsters ("sociopaths") who need to be put down like rabid dogs, and   
   thus the vast majority of people are unreliable to make well-reasoned   
   and justifyable decisions when electing a politician via universal suffrage.   
      
   If the vast majority of people are idiots, monsters or both, how could   
   democracy work?   
      
   Anarchism doesn't try to protect idiots from themselves. It's a futile   
   gesture, and only delays the inevitable. It's better to just get it over   
   with. The problem with letting idiots on the road remove themselves from   
   the gene pool is that they often take a lot of innocent people,   
   including very bright children, with them when they collide with   
   something and die.   
      
   The solution to that is to keep bright people off the roads and put   
   nothing but idiots on the road. You can't lose. To help "stimulate"   
   this, use the State or possibly a cooperative nonprofit to gift   
   inexpensive airplanes filled with alcohol and various inexpensive   
   recreational drugs, dynamite and loaded inexpensive guns to everyone you   
   can afford to, at least about 10 in each town, and say it's for   
   everyone. Use the "tragedy of the commons" to our advantage.   
      
   Of course, it goes without saying that I won't get my way on any of   
   this, but over time, an idiocracy is probably not going to happen,   
   regardless of any attempt to protect idiots from themselves, idiots will   
   slowly remove themselves from the gene pool over time, gradually   
   increasing the average IQ. One day, hopefully within my lifetime, we'll   
   have all the shiny advanced tech we're not ready for right now, such as   
   automated nurses and biomedical equipment in every home, possibly more   
   than one, designer babies, which relies on parents making wise and   
   responsible decisions regarding the future happiness and fitness of   
   their children, self-education, giving away massive amounts of   
   accessible training and education for anyone of any age to use without   
   obligation, over the internet.   
      
   This stuff is awesome, but humanity as it is right now simply isn't   
   ready for it. Would you give a virology lab to a random person on this   
   planet full of extremely virulent samples of potential pandemics? No, of   
   course you wouldn't. Would you give portable thermonuclear warheads to   
   some random person on the street? No, of course you wouldn't   
      
   Why not? Because people are dumb and would do dumb things. Search your   
   feelings, you know it to be true. However, I don't think humanity will   
   always be like this. The internet and all the constantly-increasing   
   knowledge it provides will change that. The replacement of the   
   indoctrination of the public school systems with actual education via   
   the internet and homeschooling will change that. Freeschools and   
   zero-tuition universities, like the kind I'd build and will build if   
   given the chance, will change that.   
      
   People will smarten up, seek and find knowledge, become wiser and more   
   responsible at an increasingly young age, where 8 year old girls are   
   smarter, more responsible, wiser and more trustworthy than 80 year old   
   men are today.   
      
   There will be no need for government in such a society. People will be   
   perfectly capable of governing themselves.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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