Grenartia wrote:Dammit, Indi, this is getting sigged AND AQ'd.
1. Why fucking wait?
2. How so?
How does the majority know when it should defer to experts if they don't know enough to know that they don't have enough expertise in a given field to dictate policy decisions?
I think a lot of them are the same people who beat/abuse their kids, because "SPAIR TEH RAWD, SPOYL TEH CHILD". After all, no chance of getting reported for child abuse to the ebil, totalitarian government if your bruised kid stays home all damn day.
Source on that science oympiad thing?
Also, source on that "better education" bit? One instance of a homeschool group winning a science oympiad doesn't automatically make homeschooling the best educational system ever. The fact is, if an idiot parent is homeschooling their kids, chances are, the kids are going to be idiots too.
What about hospital visitation rights? Or medical decision rights? Or funeral/final/real estate decisions? How do those get guaranteed in a manner as simple or cheap as a civil marriage?
The whole "get government out of marriage" spiel REEKS of total ignorance of the complexities of marriage, and also reeks of the childish "if I can't have X MY WAY, then NOBODY can have it at all!!" (followed by a temper tantrum).
The simple fact is that you need a broad education to prepare you for college, so that you can be prepared for the career you wish to be in (and if you choose to just get a job out of high school, you STILL need a rather broad education).
As somebody who wants to double major in Aerospace Engineering and Astrophysics, I deny EVERYTHING Newton came up with.
*builds a rocket to the moon that explodes on the launchpad*