saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) (02/21/84)
I think I'd better clarify what I had meant by my suggestion that "good" parenting be used as a voting eligibility criteria. I thought and still think that "good" parenting, whatever that means would be as good a criteria as any of the others suggested. However, I do not believe in such criteria as I pointed out in my flame and I my intention was simply to point out how much I disagree with the ideas that have been put forth, because they are so narrow-minded. Using quality of parenting as an eligibility criteria is as bad as all the other possibilities, because it is discriminative against people who do not have children, and like the others is a highly subjective concept. Sophie Quigley watmath!saquigley
jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (02/26/84)
Sorry to mis-interpret, Sophie. When you suggested that good
parenting demonstrates the values that would make a good voter... well it
made more sense to me than many of the "serious" proposals.
I guess I just assumed that that was enough.
"People are people too, but are we in trouble if they turn out not to be
cost-effective?"
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Dr Memory
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