Civilization Watch - Whose Life Is Worth Living?

This appeared March 20, 2005, over at The Ornery American. The author is Orson Scott Card.

It wasn't that many years ago when I happened to be in Raleigh at a gathering of literary folk who were quite full of their own superiority. They started talking about people who (gasp!) let years go by without reading a single book.

"Why do they even bother being alive?" asked one of them. Almost everyone laughed...