Re: private schools

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Daniel C. Burton writes:

>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.

Yes, certainly.

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   Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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