The Price of Non-Conformity

IT IS A WELL-ESTABLISHED axiom that a state must jealously guard itself against the large-scale disaffection of its citizens. Those whose personal convictions have prevented them from adequately fulfilling their obligations to the state have often been punished as an example to others. In obvious demonstration of this fact, the United States recently sentenced Minnesota’s four Doty brothers to serve their second term in prison for their refusal to conform to the provisions of the Select...