You didn’t get banned for this, why lie?
You spoke the truth… and were shunned!
Welcome to the dark side. We have cake!
I got banned for daring to question why people who don’t have children should subsidize those that do by paying school taxes.
I like how people decided you needed a lecture instead of going “Yea that is pretty fucked up”
Fucking parents. We don’t care about your kids.
Good thing you were never a kid! That’d be pretty fucked up if you had been a kid at some point and benefitted from the general public funding your education, then you slam the door behind you and make everyone else pay their own way through elementary school.
To be clear, I don’t think a ban is an appropriate response to saying something like that, but it does have the same implications as saying “why should I pay for car insurance, I’m not going to get in a crash” or “why pay for highways, I never leave my suburb”. Even if you don’t directly benefit from those services existing and being paid for, other people do and you actually do benefit from those other people being better off. For the educating kids subject specifically, think about when you’re 60, do you want to be taken care of by doctors that got a subpar education, or for your retirement funds to run out because the institutions they rely on collapsed due to a lack of educated workers. It is to everyone’s personal benefit in the long run to pay for public services that help the community even if they don’t take advantage of them personally and directly.
Except highways make everyone worse off not better. That one doesn’t fit.
I am of the opinion that Highways existing in general are a net good, but definitely shouldn’t be built the way they have been and need to be given viable alternatives in most cases. I would have used the example of paying for roads without owning a car, but I made a few assumptions about the kind of person I was replying to and tried to tailor my argument to the kind of person I figured they were (as in, the kind of person that definitely owns a car and uses it extensively).
Maybe there is a way they could have been done better, I don’t know, but I always feel the need to push back on this idea because in reality they’ve been an absolute calamity that I’ve been suffering from my whole life as one of the many people forced to live near one.
To answer that question, it’s because it is in the best interest of society as a whole including the people that don’t have children for the next generation to grow up educated and able to contribute productively to society.
I would also add to your answer that the person that doesn’t want to pay likely went to public school and already benefited from other people (including child free people) paying for their public education via school taxes and as soon as its that poster’s turn to pay taxes for schools they want to turn it around at the height of selfishness with “fuck you, I got mine”.
And also what if they do eventually have kids, how fair would it be if they took advantage of an institution that they hadn’t been paying into the success of.
Children getting an education isn’t a gift to the parents, it’s part of just having a society. No one benefits when children are kept from basic learning. That’s why it’s usually not an optional thing.
I got banned for daring to question why people who don’t have children should subsidize those that do by paying school taxes.
You absolutely should not be banned for asking that. If you meant it in good faith, you should, however, be shamed with the appropriate answer for asking it.
I’m happy to provide the appropriate shaming if you’d like that discussion.
Yes, tell me why your answer is the correct one. Should you subsidize aspects of my life and expenses?
You are absolutely free to fuck off to the desert where no one is subsidizing. I’m not just being sarcastic; I have literally fucked off to the desert where no one could bother me or help me. Shit got thirsty and dry yo
I have lived in Scottsdale before LMAO 🤣
why people who don’t have children should subsidize those that do by paying school taxes.
Because when I grow old, I don’t want a society of young uneducated morons to be in charge.
It’s why I gladly pay school taxes even though I have never had a child, and never will. By funding education to the max, the chances that the next generation becomes even better educated than the last is improved dramatically.
And this is why conservatism is so hostile to education: it desperately needs the incoming generations to be as uneducated and stupid as possible in order to maintain its electorate.
What does that have to do with getting banned for having an opposing view? Also, not sure how having to foot the bill for your own kids would result in poor education.
not sure how having to foot the bill for your own kids would result in poor education.
Because a significant amount of the population of breeding adults simply cannot afford to pay for basic education.
Not publicly subsidizing education doesn’t mean it’s now privately subsidized; it just results in less of the population getting educated, which is detrimental to the entire population.
Ok, but adults shouldn’t be doing things they can’t afford.
That’s incredibly unlikely to result in a sitewide ban
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Especially since the comment is still up and visible.
Now OP’s response under that where he posted “Guillotine Elon”, that was removed.
EDIT: You can also see this by searching his post history in the sub on pullpush. It’s literally the first result.
Interesting
Ridiculous.
I dunno, man. Seems like a leap to believe he’s doing it for cynical, shady business reasons when the far more likely explanation is just that he’s a stupid cunt.
