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From: mwm@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Getting the horse to drink.
Message-ID: <999@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 19:36:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 19:36:12 1985
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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.