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Feel free to propose another likely AC scenario for the ~1M children of neglectful parents, because I can't think of one.

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It's not my job to fill in the blanks for you. Your lack of imagination is not my problem. "If we don't do ABC, then XYZ will happen, I can't think of anything else, now you're obligated to make ABC happen" is not a convincing argument.

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What moral implacations have I ignored?

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How you're paying for it, primarily. If I point a gun at you and force you to donate money to charity X, have I done a good thing?

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Have you ever wondered why Robin Hood is always portrayed as the good guy?

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Nice dodge.

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I'm sorry if you thought that was a personal attack, no offence intended.

Car manufacture, food and death stars have very different goals / methods / effects / everything. I really don't think they are usefull analagies. Education is a very specific problem and I think it should be dealt with as such. If 20% of the population get pintos, society isn't affected in the slightest. If 20% can't read it's a huge problem for everyone.

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You think. I might have a different subjective personal preference than you. Why do you assume yours is the "right" one, and that force is justified to support your personal preference?

If people don't have cars, they can't get to their jobs. If they can't get to their jobs, I don't get my mocha lattes, and my 60" big screen tvs. The teacher can't get to school. If you don't support universal cars, you're opposing educating our most precious natural resource! Why do you hate children!??

If people being uneducated is actually a "huge problem for everyone" then everyone will have a pretty strong incentive to solve the problem - without coercive intervention.

Also, are you suggesting that people can't learn to read without a coercively funded state-supplied education system?