ladyfreckles
Acrobat
Education is getting to be a scam, anyway. I know university educated people who are competing for minimum (or slightly above) wage jobs.
Education is awesome for your brain, your well-being, whatever. Just don't count on a job that pays for it once you're finished.
This is a terrible thing to say but I am more intelligent and knowledgable than many of my friends who have Bachelor's degrees and even PhDs/masters. I know a few people that went to very, very good schools and they are well versed, much more knowledgable about the world than I am, and very cultured, but the vast majority are no less ignorant than I am. I'm a college dropout.
I also had a coworker at an old job that graduated from Harvard with a very high GPA and I knew a lot more about the subject she studied than she herself did. It depends on the school, the program, and the individual.
The biggest flaw with the way the world treats education is that we made education have to do with work. For thousands of years education had very little to do with working, it was about pursuing knowledge for the passion of it. Now we use it to "specialize" people in fields when that isn't what University should be about. It should be about knowledge. Let the tech schools handle the specialization stuff.
I think the ideas in the beginning of the first paragraph are a lot of what's wrong with government interference and regulation: the idea that people are too "stupid" to understand these things on their own, and make educated decisions without the government penalizing you for making the wrong choice. I'd like some links to provide evidence that eating fast-food will one day rob the earth of all edible resources. There are myriads of ways to replenish soil, and I'm confident as science progresses, even more efficient ways will be discovered.
I don't think people are too stupid to understand things on their own. I think they honestly just don't care (or in many cases are ignorant). As for links, watch Food Inc or any other documentary about how food is produced in this country and fact check like I did. If you meet and talk to farmers to see how this food is produced, and then look at the science behind it, you start to realize a lot of stuff.
Food inc covers a lot of my fast food bases, but a lot of what I learned came from questioning and doing research over time. Food Inc inspired me to do further research (I fact check every documentary I watch) and I learned a lot so it's not my only source, it's one of dozens. You can watch it on instant streaming on netflix and they have a website iirc.
What we are doing comes at a cost. It's really hard to explain/condense it into a short forum post though and I honestly don't have the time to be bothered with it. There is no "one link" I can give as proof. It's dozens of things that you have to piece together which is why I don't want to go through the trouble of gathering it all for you.
I absolutely never said that trying to limit consumption of unhealthy food limited human rights. I was simply implying that, if you think that disliking the idea of the government putting extra taxes on choices they deem wrong = claiming the right to overeat as a human right, that you must have a misunderstanding on what exactly a human right is.
Fair enough.