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 likelier to go to Heaven, yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.
This very kindness stings of intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will, and cured of states which we may not even regard as disease, is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason, and those who never will; to be classed with infants, invalid and domestic animals.
C.S. Lewis