re: #36 ggt

I read about this a couple of years ago and couldn’t believe it.

Watch the Olympics and look at the kid’s teeth from different countries. Do you really want that here?

Are we prepared to add Comprehensive Dental Care to our entitlements?

You know, if you want to live in fear of every little scientific improvement to our lives, you’d never ride a bike (because the wheels might collapse) or cook your food (fire might spread), or lock your door (the lock might fail and we’d be trapped).

Progress and Prosperity are not bad things.

They’re not afraid of scientific improvements so much as they are afraid of anything that suggests a social contract, in which we pool resources and make communal decisions. On a very deep level, they reject the whole idea of civilization, while intending to go on living in densely populated, industrialized areas.

This will not work.