Re:Wave of US labor unrest could see tens of thousands on st...
by londgine on Saturday October 02, 2021 @12:03PM
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> It's just imprisonment
I think you misunderstood my comment. I was countering the claim that positive rights (such as the right to healthcare) cause slavery (for the doctor). In the context of TeeMassive's comment, he was implying that doctors would be forced to provide their labor to patients if the government declared a right to healthcare. My comment about how the right to childhood education does not cause slavery was referring to the teachers point of view, ie. that the teachers are not enslaved.
Re:Wave of US labor unrest could see tens of thousands on st...
by eigengrau5150 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @12:11AM
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That's what I get for trolling right-wing trolls at zero-dark-thirty. Sorry.
> Does the positive right for every child to receive 12 years of education result in slavery?
It isn't slavery. It's just imprisonment. At least, that's how it felt to me and it's how it feels to a lot of kids who haven't lost touch with their own true feelings in order to please the adults around them.
I don't think children actually get 12 years of education. They might spend twelve years going to school, but the actual academic education they get is probably something they could pick up with a year of concerted effort.
It's a grotesque waste of a child's time to keep them in school for so long just for such a limited academic program, but that seems to be the outer curriculum. The inner curriculum is about habits: obedience, punctuality, constructive obsession (aka "good work habits"). It's not the academics that matter in the real world, but the ability to do what you're told and con yourself into thinking that jumping through hoops is inherently worthwhile.
We call the kids who excel at this "college material", and allow them to do more of the same at their own eventual expense via student loans.