mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) (07/10/85)
In article <1619@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes: >In my view, one freedom that should be >curtailed is the freedom to be uninformed (or uneducated, perhaps). Martin, just *how* are you going to force people to be informed&educated&rational? There are lot's of educators out there who'd like to know. :-) I have had some thoughts along those lines before. They all amount to dis-enfranchising some portion of the populace based on literacy/etc. The best of the lot seemed to be having ballots that list party platforms (with the party name removed), instead of party and/or nominees. At the very least, it would make the party think a little about what they were putting in their platform. <mike