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Do they do this because they want to enforce their own view of utopia onto others? That excuses nothing. >Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good o
by PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
Do they do this because they want to enforce their own view of utopia onto others? That excuses nothing.
>Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.
-- C. S. Lewis
- sandworm101 8y agoLewis never met a billionaire. The robber baron is never satiated. They are not in pursuit of money, or even power. They seek relative money and power. Their greed ends only when they are on top, at which point they become rightly paranoid of their peers. So no, I don't believe that life under the robber baron any better than under "moral" leadership.
- PurpleBoxDragon 8y agoIn which case they are still equally bad and thus it doesn't matter if they think they are doing it for benevolent reasons.