[lug] One laptop per child

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 09:12 -0700, George Sexton wrote:
> It's a matter of priorities. You have to meet people's basic physical needs before you can start meeting their other needs. The Declaration of independence said
> "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
> 
> It doesn't make sense to do them out of order.

Tell that to those who died in the Revolutionary war in order to get
liberty.  Sometimes, out of order is the only way to get these things.

BTW, since when is providing educational tools to people only part of
"pursuit of happiness"?  Maybe it is part of "life", instead.  It's
certainly part of liberty.

Note that I don't disagree with you.  Peoples basic needs are priority
one.  But not everyone is in a position to provide those needs.  My
argument for OLPC is you do what you can.  It's better than doing
nothing at all, which we have far too much of.
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