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In fact, the nature of living is that one moves ever closer to mortality, and no government action can change that.

In Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Albert Jay Nock relates an example of such just tolerance.

One of his fellow students at college was a snake-master, who “not only kept a round dozen or so in his room, but also usually had two or three coiled around him under his loose flannel shirt.” Nock records the response of the college’s president, who heard of it in a passing conversation.

“‘What an extraordinary taste!

—I can’t imagine such a thing, -most revolting!

—abominable!

’ With that he paused a moment, and then snapped out, ‘However, I can’t but see that he is within his rights, and he shall have them.’” We need to likewise insist that the pub owner be given his rights and be left to run his own business.

It seems, however, doubtful that such will happen.

The modern citizen, who sees rights as something granted by the government, cannot much object when they are revoked.

For all the talk about the progress of human rights, we’re becoming more regulated and restricted than ever.

Poor Bilbo, if he were to wake up in Scotland today!

Consider the scene, “After some time he felt for his pipe.

It was not broken, and that was something.

Then he fe...

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