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echo: educator
to: RON MCDERMOTT
from: MICHAEL MARTINEZ
date: 1996-08-06 17:28:00
subject: Re: IVAN ILLICH

 -=> Quoting Ron McDermott to Michael Martinez <=-
 MM>If you didn't go to school, you'd be surviving by doing something
 MM>else, I guarantee you that.
 
 MM>That's the only other option you can think of, government welfare?
 RM> Who are you to certify that what I choose to do is RIGHT?
 RM> That's unfair....
 
 MM>What about working as a mechanic,
 RM> I'd probably have to go to school; that'd be unfair.  I'd
 RM> also have to buy tools; not the tools I want, but those the
 RM> car manufacturers demand - THAT'S unfair!
 
 MM>a driver,
 RM> I guess this'd be easy, especially with no traffic laws,
 RM> licenses, etc required....
 
 MM>cleaning houses,
 RM> I don't know... Wouldn't someone be telling me what to do,
 RM> when to do it?  I don't think it's fair to have to conform
 RM> to the wishes of others, do you?
 
 MM>painting,
 RM> I don't WANT to do this...
 
 MM>trading in the black market,
 RM> Too racist....
 
 MM>being a chef or a cook,  ... ?
 RM> I know enough to last about 4 days... Also, following a
 RM> recipe is too restricting... I want to put whatever I want
 RM> into the food - I presume that in this utopian society I
 RM> don't have to conform to laws against criminally-negligent
 RM> homicide?
 
Then I guess you're out of luck, Ron.  You're the indigent or lazy
person who would starve.
-mike
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