Re: private schools
Daniel C. Burton (dburton@ocf.berkeley.edu)
16 Dec 1997 05:43:23 GMT
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Seth David Schoen <schoen@uclink4.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
: Daniel C. Burton writes:
: >(People might be a little less likely to give loans to someone in say,
: >Philosophy or Sociology, but that's just the free market at work getting
: >rid of what we need less of.... Being a philosopher or a sociologist is a
: >bit more of a privilege than a necessity.)
: We can still be unhappy about the lack of money for philosophers, though,
: without saying it should be a government-imposed funding mandate.
: If I make a lot of money in CS (which I probably won't, because I want to
: be a professor) or even if I don't, I hope I can give some money to schools
: to help make being a philosopher affordable.
Of course, but people will get what they want in a free market. If they
don't think the sacrifice is worth it to contribute money so people can be
philosophers (or buy lots of philosophy books or whatever), they won't get
a lot of philosophy. We can then say they should want more philosophers,
but we shouldn't try to impose our values on them and keep them from
getting what they want by making there be more philosophers at their
expense. The reason why is pretty obvious: Once you can do that to them,
they can do the same to you, and in the end no one's values are served
very well.
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