Using Ubuntu absolves the user of personal responsibility?

[Colin Brace]

On 8/3/06, Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com> wrote:

> When we absolve people of personal responsibility, we often create a
> situation of dependence.  As shining examples of this, we might look
> at the "health" care, social welfare, and educational systems of the
> United States.

I understand the point you are trying to make w.r.t helping newcomers,
but this is a really poor analogy. Virtually all ubuntu users in our
environment have more or less equal access to a resource like google,
but sometimes new users do indeed need some guidance in how to find
their way around the vast amount of information out there, how to find
answers to the questions they have.

However, the chronic lack of opportunities poor people in the United
States face due to systematic underfunding of public services and
economic stagnation is a completely different set of problems. Don't
blame the victims.

-- 
  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam