Herewith two blood-boilers from today's press - bushes and haggis as inalienable rights. At times like this, it's hard not to agree with Jeremy Bentham: 'The idea of rights is nonsense, and of natural rights is nonsense on stilts.'.
Unless foliage is integral to the performance of whatever it is that they have been doing, I don't see how the removal of the bushes prevents them from carrying on.
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
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ReplyDeleteUnless foliage is integral to the performance of whatever it is that they have been doing, I don't see how the removal of the bushes prevents them from carrying on.
ReplyDeleteWhen they say "bushes", to what exactly are they referring ?
ReplyDeleteAs for Dave, he must be the only Scot who can stand the stuff.