posted by Kyle on Sep 18
Obama’s National Service Program will require schools to make high-school and even middle-school students perform 50 hours of service each year or forgo federal financial aid.
This shows precisely why we will never win until we have destroyed the philosophy of altruism. Those that hold service as an ideal are either terribly misguided, or, as Ayn Rand put it,
It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
This is also a wonderful argument against federal financing of education. Politicians can’t resist using it to dictate to schools how they will operate, and schools can’t resist taking the money. It is a recipe for disaster.
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