Arianrhod
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You really can't work this one out for yourself?The principle is the same....why should you pay for educating someone else's kid?
Not when the purpose of each isn't the same.
I shouldn't pay to educate someone else's kid. I'm not the one that produced someone else's kids. That, alone, means it's not my place to do a damn thing for them. NOTHING.
You take the point too far. 'Free' college is a very bad idea, but if your house was burning down you'd want the fire department to come. Why should your neighbors pay to save your house?
Because keeping the fire department ready and operating at all times benefits them if it's THEIR house that catches fire instead. Also, the fire in my house quite possibly might spread to theirs.
Now tell me what direct benefit I get from educating someone else's kid.
The direct benefit to me of total strangers sitting in "Perspectives in Pop Culture" classes on my dime?
No, I'm really going to need some help here.
You're not only familiar with the current curriculum in every state university in America, but you also know it wouldn't change once tuitions were rolled back to where they were in the 1950s and 1960s? Remarkable.