Social consequences of a religion?

Sign*Reader wrote: I can�t tell what country you dwell in to be so cynical about the process!

I've lived in so many countries in the meanwhile, that I really don't know what country to call home. I might move again, depending on the contract situation.

Sign*Reader wrote: The super market would not survive if the meat they sold was bad and caused food poisoning, the owners will be looking at the law suit and they will be taken to the cleaners.

That really depends on who is involved. If it turns out that this big corporation's pesticide, that you don't know the farmers are using, turns out to give you cancer, you may find the government helpful in covering up on their side, instead of helping you out.

I am inclined to trust food more, when I know that the farmers eat it themselves, because most of the food, they grow for themselves, and they're only selling their surplus to others. I seriously distrust the "agribusiness".

Sign*Reader wrote: The schools are also demography based and paid for the home owner tax base, You need to be explicit what are saying, may be true where you live

I revert to thinking that is better that the parents pay the school directly, even though that means that some parents may struggle to pay.

In most countries, the government collects tax (at gunpoint) and pays the schools out of these taxes. As a result, parents have little say.

So, if the government decides to mandatorily gender-mix the schools, you end up sending your daughters to a mixed school, regardless of whether you like it or not. In my impression, these mixed schools will eventually and invariably get out of hand, as should be expected.

Children learn quite a few wrong things there, and especially, it degenerates in the wrong kind of popularity contest, where school results are less important than doing in well in the wrong dynamics between teenage boys and girls.

No wonder that American schools are at the bottom of every league. At the same time, by the time they get out of school, they are already veterans of the "dating scene", which I have come to reject as a method to find a spouse.

So, the son ends up being no good at math and unfit for engineering, while the daughter may have managed to do better in terms of school results, but has developed the bad habits that will bedevil her family life later on, and is already divorcing before actually getting married.

These schools also teach ideas that I don't endorse, whereunder:
- sex before marriage is ok; just use a condom
- dating is the way to find a spouse
- it is normal to co-habitate
- to have children outside marriage is acceptable
- arranged marriages are bad
- homosexuality is "normal"
- religion is st**id
- et cetera

They just hijack the kids and the money at gunpoint, and then ruin their education and their future, because a bunch of democratically elected misfits managed to take control of the system and subvert it, which is the normal democratic result, because most people come out of that education system failure and now seriously believe that this is the way things should be.

Look at the pension system. Instead of the kids supporting their own parents through old age, we have a system in which the government collects taxes from the kids, and then supposedly supports the elderly. It cannot be trusted. It shows the wrong dynamics. Why should anybody raise kids? Doing so, eats into your income, and has no old-age benefits. What's more, raising kids requires a stable family, and they've destroyed that too. As a result, the next generation is too small to support the previous one.

Look at the hospitals. I discern the same pattern there. In a government-run hospital scheme, we are just tax payers and not real customers. So, it goes wrong again.

So, I've come to think that this principle can be generalized. Everything the government organizes by collecting taxes at gunpoint, takes away control from the real customers, who have simply been degraded from customers to tax payers. It will eventually be subverted.

I grew up in that system, but I don't believe any longer in it. I am sure it will crash and burn.