Re: [OS:N:] Re: School Filtering

[Marco Fioretti <m fioretti inwind it>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 08:31:10 at 08:31:10AM -0700, ekunin wrote:
> 
> Before you tell me adults who know more than kids are obliged to keep them
> on the straight and narrow, let me tell you I think that's baloney.
> Experience matters in primitive societies. In rapidly evolving technological
> societies, kids, being closer to the latest technology, know more about
> what's happening. That doesn't sit well, but it's the case.

Uh? Are you serious? You cannot put on the same level technological
and moral/ethical/emotional experience.

Our brains, and the things that really count, evolve MUCH slower than
technology.
Computers and cell phones were not around twenty years ago. Rape,
theft, etc... were wrong eons ago, and will, I hope, remain wrong.

Yes, nowadays any 7 years old can (learn to) use a VCR,  browser or cell
phone much faster than most 35/50/75 years old adults. So what? Does
that automatically make him or her able to:

	not steal
	not rape
	whatever...

So, yes, (the majority of) adults still know more than kids where it
really matters. and are obliged to keep them straight.

Of course, many of the adults without enough common sense to set good
guidelines go into politics, creating this and many other problems,
but I digress...

OK, back to Open Source now: yes to control on internet access in
schools, but with OS sw, open lists, and parents checking them often,
since, as another poster already said, ultimately the control of
*their* children is *their* responsibility.

	Ciao,
		Marco Fioretti

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