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 | 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...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
The rights of parents and the rights of family take precedence over those of Washington-based bureaucrats and social engineers. —Ronald Reagan. Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Florida, March 8, 1983. One of the greatest evils the state can...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 1, 2015 | Society
As each individual relies upon the helpful vigilance of the state, he learns to abandon to its responsibility the fate and wellbeing of his fellow-citizens. But the inevitable tendency of such abandonment is to deaden the living force of sympathy, and to render the...
