SORRY HE WAS BORN.
In this week’s “Christian Commonwealth” Judge Rentoul states that a man brought an action for damages against his father for causing his existence;
“I hoard the point argued in the Court of Appeal on entirely sound legal principles, namely, that according to our law if a man does you an injury which damages you, and which you cannot prevent, and to which you give no consent, that man must pay you damages. All this is sound and good law. Then the plaintiff went on to show that existence was a loss and a bore to him, and that he could not get rid of it without breaking the law by committing suicide. The Court was, of course, in roars of laughter, but the plaintiff’s 'arguments were vastly more logical than many theological arguments which I have heard and road.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 17 February 1915, Page 8
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143SORRY HE WAS BORN. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 17 February 1915, Page 8
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