""probably we would differ about who is more useful to society as a whole. but i would take music as far more beneficial than monarchy or military.""
You may be right, but I'd hate to tell a casualty 2000 feet up Capel Curig that I was sending out a guitarist and a DJ to rescue him.
Unlike the detractors on this thread, I am not belittling anybody, least of all your son. I am simply trying to point out the malicious fallacy and myth, perpetrated by idiots who think that:
1. Rich=Stupid 2. Privileged=Inbred 3. Tory=Posh, avaricious and dishonest.
The answers or course are:
1. There are stupid people who are poor, and there are rich people who are highly intelligent. 2. The Royal family are not inbred, and never have been. They live under the same cultural and legal restrictions as the rest of us. The gene pool of aristocratic families throughout Europe and beyond is amply large enough for strong genetic lines and there have been insertions of new genes with various commoner marriages. 3. This is the most stupid assertion of all. It is a claim that over one third of this country's voters are Posh, avaricious and dishonest.
These fallacies amount to proof that those who diseminate them should be considered too stupid to be qualified to vote.