WHAT is the primary purpose of, and thus the moral justification for, a government? This is a question that since the time of Plato has occupied great minds. And though I was not as attentive as I ought to have been during the late Dudley Knowles’s lectures, I cannot remember him saying that any of them concluded that it was to prohibit free poppadoms and prawn crackers with a carry-out meal. . https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16961778.snp-recipe-for-healthy-eating-is-just-too-much-to-stomach/