Greetings, Flemming,
I have been on your NCN mailing list (ncnmain-l@newciv.org) for awhile,
just reading, while I tend to some other matters online and serve as
Millennium Matters SIG-meister and Coordinator for an MM SIG titled "Right
To Privacy."
Before "getting side-tracked" with the SIGs, I had already begun some work
with focus on teenagers and young adults, beginning with my website and
planned to be developed with a discussion list and a fiction story for
teens titled "Merlyn Newage" (which I hope to eventually see developed as
an interactive 3D/CD ROM).
I feel _very_ strongly that our current education systems, in particular
the public schools, are doing an extremely poor job of incorporating
lessons about morals, ethics and related issues for our children and plan
to focus all work at my site to support those topics. I am a student of
philosophy because I view that as an area outside the bounds of
"traditional religions" which allows us to discuss issues of right and
wrong without arguing about specific rituals or various interpretations of
religious writings. Most things can be identified as "honest" or
"dishonest" without bringing judgment of religious traditions into the
conversation.
Currently, I am looking for people who would like to contribute
information, articles and/or conversation about philosophy, ethics and
morals to our website and possibly a mailing list (yet to be set up). As a
professional graphic artist and typesetter, I have already "bitten off more
than I can chew" in producing the website pages and some of the contents
there and realize that the work needs to be shared in order to provide the
readers multiple viewpoints, and hopefully, reinforcement from many
sources.
I first thought the Right To Privacy (RTP) SIG had taken me far off course
from what I had intended to be working on and was surprised to see, as time
went on, that it had actually brought me full circle back to the work I
most wanted to do. Now I see that current issues, such as the
Communications Decency Act (which brought RTP to life) are integral to the
types of conversation we hope to interest students in. Some of the most
active "behind the scenes" participants in the lawsuits engendered by the
CDA have come from college campuses, where teachers and students are
monitoring the outcome of the government's efforts to censor internet
contents. Here we are indeed, back to looking at "right and wrong," "honest
or dishonest" in a real time real life scenario.
If you think there may be members of NCN who would be interested in this
work, geared for high school and college students as well as other young
people, I would very much like to hear from them. As I am not familiar with
the paths usually followed in your group when such a "call" is received, I
will rely on you to direct me as to the best course of action to follow.
Yours truly,
jc :)
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