philosophy currupts children?!?!

im sad..... today the head of our school philosophy club got a complaint from an angry parent claiming that we were currupting her child.... by discussing the ethics of piracy.this put a stop to all student made clubs, now they have to be sponsered by a staff member..... i hate my school

 

people have been pullin this shit for thousands of years, and you're surprised that your little club got shut down?

just meet outside of school. its not like they'll execute you for it, or even jail you. not in this situation anyhow.

 

It doesn't corrupt nearly as much as music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baj-6KjfEoY

 

How was the parent able to make that case?

 

that's ok, philosophy corrupts everybody.

 

CANADIAN SCHOOLS HAVE PHILOSOPHY CLUBS??????

Yeah, Public Education Down Here is definitely lacking...

And what was that about having to drink hemlock for corrupting the youth of Athens, again?

 

Yet again the Man tries to pull down society around our ears, stopper the flow of thought, corrupt the masses to his violence! All this was was to keep the children from learning more than they should. That damn parent should be shot....

 

heh

 

philosophy only corrupts smart children.

 

Well, your philosophy club has taught you at least one valuable lesson; that most people will do almost anything to avoid thinking and that many people, even many who consider themselves open minded, find thinking and reasoning to be subversive and corrupting.

 

some philosophy does

piracy can be ethical

 

apparently philosophy is pretty much considered evil to muslims... maybe it was one of them who felt the need to complain about it...

 

Maybe, im just having a little chuckle to myself, that one parent complains about a philosophy club and you guys are going on about "the man" and making pretty useless generalizations. Have a little perspective people!

 

well i seriously doubt that it was actually a muslim parent... the thread just reminded me of the sickening fact that this particular religion rejects thinking and considers you a bad person for doing so, so i mentioned it.

i do suspect it was a typical christian moron in this case, as it happened in canada.

 

The intelligent ones usually outgrow traditional philosophy.

The rest of them don't matter. They are simply worker ants in this giant ant hill.

 

Wasn't Socrates put to death for discussing philosophy? 2500 years ago. How does this violation of free speech still continue in modern america?

 

because people really aren't that different than how they were 2500 years ago

 

finally some sense.

2500 years is next to nothing in the grand scheme of things, apart from where pollution and exponential population growth is concerned.

history is a tiny aspect of humanity's past. nothing much has changed beyond our numbers, our technologies, and our impact on the ecosystems of the planet.

we have different philosophies and religions, but not much different behaviors on a social level.

 

Yeah there is a different thing between being put to death and having your little philosophy class broken up. I'm not saying i don't see the problem the OP would have with that. But in highschool, the limitations of the minors involved aren't really a reflection of the freedoms of society in western culture in general.

This would be a different discussion, if this was an adult club because there is only one obvious issue involved. But really this is mostly to do with parental control issues flowing on a little bit. I wouldn't use this case as evidence that philosophy, or free thinking in the west is persecuted.

 

Ah yes I forgot to mention that Socrates was put to death because his philosophy was "corrupting children's minds" similar to the way that they felt this philosophy class was corrupting children's minds. Obviously death is a stricter punishment but the effect of banning philosophy from discussion with children is the same. Either way is this right?

Isn't the goal of philosophy is not to corrupt the minds of children but to encourage people to think independtly? I don't know what they were discussing in that class but if it was philosophy, then they should be allowed to carry on, there is nothing wrong with open discussion.