The Debt That All Men Must Pay

Throughout humanity’s history, we have assembled together in groups. Whether for the purpose of civil organization (like town’s and cities) or for like-minded company, or for protection, our nature has been to gather.

But that act of gathering together insinuates a trade-off. We must give up certain, inalienable rights that ultimately make for a more ordered group. For example, if we all went to a meeting and spoke up at the same time, it would be chaos and the meeting would degenerate into an...