by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 4, 2015 | Society
Publicly provided healthcare is wrong If it is really the duty of the state to take care of the public health, it is surely bound to adopt the most efficient means of fulfilling that duty. Why not then act upon the old adage, that “prevention is better than cure,”...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Crime
If a man commit murder, let him be punished as a murderer, and let no regard be paid to his plea of conscience for committing the action; but let not the opinions, which led to the action be meddled with. —Joseph Priestley. Essay on the First Principles of Government,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
There is a base level of education to which society is justified in requiring children to be educated. This is justified by the need to: Protect society as a whole from an uneducated mob; Protect society from ignorant individuals; Protect children from neglect. The...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
Public education degenerates into an indoctrination tool Children who need to be able to count and multiply are learning anti-racist mathematics—whatever that may be. Children who need to be able to express themselves in clear English are being taught political...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
There is nothing unique about education that distinguishes it from the many other human needs which are filled by private enterprise. If, for many years, the government had undertaken to provide all the citizens with shoes (on the grounds that shoes are an urgent...
