Dee. 5.
Posstsiy there will always be some divergence of opinion concerning the right of governing bodies to prevent persons from indulging in the use of drugs inimical to their own health and to the welfare of others, on the ground that it is an unwarrantable interference with personal liberty.
But the only liberty worth having is being able to live in accordance with the laws, physical and moral, of one's being, and political thinkers who strenuously defend individual rights admit that where there enslavement to what is injurious it is the duty of the authorities to remove all obstacles to the acquisition of freedom. From this point of view there ought to be-general agreement that the sick, the weak, the helplessly ignorant, should be protected from those who would despoil or injure them. Usually it is just these classes that are mercilessly exploited. For instance, among for. the - province... The - to- the hundreds of thousands of
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