Hi Dragan,

>>Dunno really. I don't see why not. I mean change the words:
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>>"Do not lie"
>>"Do not steal"
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>>etc..
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>>What's wrong with those?
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>Well, almost nothing. It's the first one, that is just advertisement, and unfair at that. "Thou shalt not buy from other shoppes". Or, should I say "Thou shalt not install any software other than Microsoft".

Hmmm.. I thought that was something in the water.. <g>


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>>The presence of something like that doesn't cause me any gas. Why hide the rich cultural information from children?
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>>Is the presence of a Marlboro 'forcing' people to smoke? Take the logic and applt it elsewhere.
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>OK, the presence of roads, parkings and the absence of sidewalks is forcing me to drive when I'd rather walk.
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>In that sense, along with the ten commandments I'd also like to see a few I Ching books, few Upanishads... and then, why not, works of guys like Kant, Schopenhauer and other great minds. All of that is equally important cultural information.

Well, I certainly don't have any problem whatsoever with any of these other books as folks can learn from them. The trouble, of course, comes from all the wrangling over the curriculae I'd suspect. <g> I kind of figure that the 'no prayer' approach was and is the coward's way out. <g>