Everything is made by a mad schoolmaster. Otherwise the society will degenerate and fossilize into centralism. It will no longer grow. But living transformation, development and growth are not possible unless we swallow the bitter pill which today is the despised and dysvalued intellectual freedom. Nothing is easier for someone with skill and a knowledge of anatomy than to kill a man without instruments, with just one chop of the hand, painlessly and instantaneously.
All executions are ritual executions.
You can evaluate books as, e.g., weapons for throwing. That is an impartial and objective standard. I myself have smoked several pages of the Acts of the Apostles. The oldest editions are best, for they have the thinnest paper. Before God we are all Americans.