We all know our days are numbered. We try to live as best and as right as we can until the instant arrives when we are no longer relatively alive. Is it better to die without foreknowledge? Or is it best to have time to put your affairs in order, say your good-byes, and wait for death to take your hand?
What we bind together and choose to fight defines our cultural values and our inherent morality and immoral choices. When a French court ruled that voodoo dolls of French President Nicolas Sarkozy must be sold with a warning label indicating sticking pins in the toy hurts Sarkozy’s feelings, a small slice of intellectual freedom was preserved in the presumptive ridiculousness of the ruling:
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