[Rduke55]

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I have a Ph.D. in physics, specifically, astrophysics. I was an assistant professor at a state university and an instructor at a state-funded magnet school for science and mathematics. As my personal philosophy turned more and more libertarian and finally anarcho-capitalist, I realized such jobs were immoral, and I quit. I'm now in real estate.

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Out of curiosity, what did you find immoral about it? I'm a professor in the neurosciences and I love it and can't figure out what's immoral about it.

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If you are paid with taxpayer dollars, money that has been confiscated from individuals who could have used it to send their kids to a better school, take their family on a vacation, buy a new car, invest for their retirement, or blow on coke and hookers, it is immoral, in my humble opinion. Perhaps it was easier for me to come to this conclusion given that my field (astrophysics) is so esoteric, rather than something than can demonstrably help people, like neuroscience. I love my field, too. I really, really love it. I miss it every day. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] But that doesn't give me the right to rob people so I can sit around and simulate accretion disks on supercomputers.

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I don't understand how the money has been "confiscated" from the people or that you robbed them. Why didn't they send their kids to a different school? If they couldn't afford it does their kid not deserve an education? Is your idea that there should be no affordable universities? And how do you see it that it would be better for them to buy themselves a new car than invest in their child's future?
I'm very confused.
Did you just snap one day from thinking about astrophysics too much?