On Oct 10, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Nick Lidster wrote:
Well if the parents are the problem and the teachers are not the
solution
then does it fall to the system or the state to fix the problems that
are
happening?
Not in the way proposed by RFID. Forcing parents to be responsible for
their offspring is the more prudent choice, because it doesn't
unnecessarily burden the innocents — the kids who aren't getting into
trouble, or the taxpayers who would have to pay to install RFID
detectors.
If parents had to spend time in jail when their kids committed crimes,
I think we'd see a vast and almost total reduction in juvenile
offenses.
I have more then one way to fix the system but it would be hard and
would take the full generation for the effects to be fully seen.
It took generations for the system to degrade. This is not something
that can be patched with a quick legislative fiat or two.
With the
way that government works it might last 3yrs till someone new came to
power
with a different agenda.
And that's part of the problem as well. With RFID accepted tech,
someone with a very dark agenda could come along and abuse the tech as
he saw fit, turning the US into a place where, if your digital papers
are not in order, you can't get anything done.
I cannot think of a single society in human history that has ever been
successful for an extended period while insisting on rigid
identification and tracking protocols for individuals. It sure as hell
didn't work for the USSR, did it?
RFID tracking of schoolchildren is a major step into damnation.
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