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. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
- Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology, 1948
I realise there is likely not to be anything "sincere" about our current Globohomo elites, but nonetheless...
Man had a point. In 1948!!
I see the first couple of sentences quoted by people all the time, but thought the whole thing was worth a post, for a change.
Bloke had some very good points. The Screwtape Letters is also worth a look-in (play or book), if you're interested in the man's... Philosophy, or thoughts, as it were, on this sort of thing.
More interesting than his good mate Tolkien, in that regard, IMHO...