On Aug 30, 2:17 pm, Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed. But that changes your criterion; you would remove the voting > rights of those with *bad* memes.
I wrote in the intial post: This would include nearly all religious fundamentalists as well as others who are overly infected with any powerful memes. After examining the evidence, I realize that I wasn't clear even to myself (if my memory serves me correctly). Under my original hypothetical proposal, I would not remove the voting rights of those with *bad* memes. Instead I would remove the voting rights of those with memes that prevented them from gathering new information rethinking their positions even if they wound up usually coming to the same conclusion. However a test could be set up to find out if a person was too set or to easily influenced. Finding out if a person was too set would be relatively easy since it would be, in my opinion, easy to define "too set" to think straight. Actually I would allow some leeway here, becuase the exact point at which a person is over the line is not that clear. But, way too set is obvious, at least to me. Such people should not be allowed to vote, in my opinion (half kidding mind you).Too open to change would be harder to define, but I believe that such a thing exists. On Aug 30, 2:17 pm, Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <<it is possible that some of us operate under the control of memes > that > seek to find the truth, even when it means proving that some of our > most cherished beliefs (memes) are wrong. >> > > Agreed. But that changes your criterion; you would remove the voting > rights of those with *bad* memes. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
