X-Message-Number: 20576 Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:00:35 -0500 From: Stephen Ritger <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #20571 References: <> > > >And no vaccine known for the average >mind, except prior infection with something nearly as bad. > > > Actually, the "vaccine" is teaching children critical thinking from an early age. Raise them as skeptics, and they will be far less likely to fall into the trap of religion and mysticism. While this is not 100% guaranteed (nothing in the real world ever is), it greatly improves the chances that our children, their children, and so on, will lead rational, productive, successful lives. You don't prevent drug addiction by offering one drug instead of another, you show how senseless and destructive drug addiction is. Same goes for deity worship and all forms of supernaturalism. Just my .02... Steve Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20576