Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
> 
>>>   Ok, it might not be "fair" that all children are not given the same
>>> opportunities, but do you really want to lower the overall education level
>>> of your entire country just in the name of "fairness"?
> 
>> As somebody who actually lives in the UK, I don't think banning private 
>> schools would do anything positive.
> 
>> Hypothetically, everybody should have an equal chance in life. Obviously 
>> this is impossible, but we can still strive to get as close to it as 
>> possible.
> 
>   I really do think that forcing "equal opportunity for everybody" by
> removing privileges from the rich is *not* the proper solution.

I think that was not the point of that article, but I seem to have lost 
the link somewhere in the long discussion.

> 
>   That's a bit like saying that everybody should have the same quality of
> vision, and to do that, we make everybody blind so that now truly everybody
> will be equal in terms of vision. That's just silly.
>

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