[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[Nikola Smolenski]

On 04/09/11 21:28, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:16:42PM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>> The trouble is that at its edges, education is fundamentally
>>> disconcerting, upsetting and subversive. And that this is a matter
>>> only of degree, not of kind.
>>
>> I agree, and I would never turn on such a filter. That doesn't mean
>> that other people shouldn't be allowed to if they want to.
>
> Right, but then they won't be educated.
>
> But, if they don't want to be educated, erm, why are they using
> an encyclopedia in the first place?

Perhaps different people want to be educated about different things? For 
example, I might want to be educated about possible treatments for 
arachnophobia, but I don't want to be educated about how a large hairy 
spider looks in close-up?