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Time to bring out the old CS Lewis quip: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be b
by quotemstr 5y ago
Time to bring out the old CS Lewis quip:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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 own conscience."
A big problem is that the moral busybodies who propose laws banning random things are the same moral busybodies who censor internet discussion.