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The problem of complexity
- We solve it partly by cooperating with other people
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Free speech and insults
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How should insults be viewed in the context of free speech?
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Not necessarily helpful, but impossible to draw a line between idea and insult – if insults are not allowed, that rule can be used to increase the restriction to include expressions that are definitely ideas.
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Incentive reward
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School teachers in Sweden thought that there was too much competition in education – without competition, a lot of incentive reward would be lost.
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There seems to be an idea (among some teachers) that every pupil/student should be equally successful and that this would be fair. However, people have different potential and a fair school system would create some students more successful than others.
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Why do people think like this?
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One possible reason might be that they view intelligence as connected to a person’s value as a human being. Thus, creating equally intelligent students would help creating a society where everyone has the same human worth.
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