<p>Borrowing from my English teacher:</p>
<p>It’s like a poor person saying, “Oh, I can be rich if I wanted to.”</p>
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that was the point 
they’re equally ridiculous. </p>
<p>i’m PSEO, and i love that i don’t have graded homework. i can do homework when i know that i need to do it (when i don’t get the material) and skip it when it won’t make sense for me to do so.</p>
<p>That’s a horrible analogy, as mile time has nothing to do with success in school. However, if you changed it to be…</p>
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<p>It makes a little more sense. We do it with sports teams. Why shouldn’t we do it with school?</p>
<p>no, the point is, instead of discriminating against intelligent kids, let’s discriminate against fat kids.</p>
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<p>Are you ■■■■■■■■?</p>
<p>Body fat percentage is completely arbitrary for success in school. Lack of intelligence is not.
And again, a track team (where body fat percentage is relevant) WOULD discriminate against fat kids, like they should. So should schools discriminate against the kids who lack intelligence. If your schools track team trained at the pace of the slowest kid who showed up, they would not be a very fast team, and the naturally fast kids would be jogging at every practice.</p>
<p>arbitrary means based on random choice or whim. </p>
<p>body fat is completely based on personal choice or whim for success in school. intelligence is not based on personal choice or whim for success in school.</p>
<p>i think the word you meant to use was ‘irrelevant’ but i’m not even sure about that. could you restate that?</p>
<p>No, I could not. It’s arbitrary in the sense that you did select body fat on a whim. You could just as easily have chosen hair color or shoe size and the analogy would have been just as illogical.</p>
<p>no, my decision to pick body fat was not at all arbitary. look at the obesity rates in america!</p>
<p>Intelligience does not correlate with pleasure, so therefore it is meaningless since Hedonism is undoubtedly the highest form of human achievement.</p>
<p>but what if intelligence did correlate with pleasure? what if it gave me supreme pleasure to be the smartest and bestest and greatest at everything?</p>
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Utilize some of that work ethic to compensate for the lack of intelligence in your posts. Try REALLY hard and you can write posts that are just as good as those written in 30 seconds by smart people. But I’m tired and not willing to wait that long, so I’ll check in the morning. Night.</p>
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Then, paradoxically speaking, you are an idiot.</p>
<p>Blissful ignorance is the most pure form of pleasure.</p>
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<p>woah man, i’m not going to take those kind of insults from someone who hardly recovered from misusing arbitrary twice in the same post. i hope you sleep well. i hope when you wake up, the sun is shining, there is no snow, you have a nice calm drive to school, your day is fun, you make some great entertaining plans for the weekend, that they are serving your favorite food for lunch, your chocolate milk has no frozen bits, and that you find a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk during your walk home. </p>
<p>i love you.</p>
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<p>you can’t make any assertations to the totally subjective experience of pleasure. just because some dead old pederast philosopher said it doesn’t make it true.</p>
<p>BoilingWax- You’re an idiot.
That mile run analogy very well may be the worst one I have ever read.</p>
<p>Hey, nothing wrong with having less fat kids in the school system. The mile thing sounds cool.</p>
<p>^ If that mile run thing applied to girls, you wouldn’t hear me complaining :D</p>
<p>Yeah, one thing that’s wrong with our education system is how easy it is to cheat/work in groups and let the smart people do the work while the others copy. The system should be more intellectually based and require much less rote memorization. It’s way too easy for unintelligent students to get 4.0’s.</p>
<p>woooo! another intelligent logical person in this thread! (deposition)</p>