Why should a club man be killed?
It might be asked, why should a club man live?
But this was hardly to the point.

They do live.

After all, to be fair, what does a club man ask of society?
Not much.

Merely wine, women and singing.

Why not let him have them?
Is it fair to kill him?
Does the gain to literature outweigh the social wrong?
The writer estimated that at the rate of killing now going on the club men would be all destroyed in another generation.