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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

C.S. Lewis and I agree with you.

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.


68 posted on 09/10/2011 10:46:53 PM PDT by KDD (When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
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To: KDD

And yet the irony is that you are expressing a moral view that you seek to impose yourself.

You find those who wish to have a ‘right to representation’ on issues of right and wrong in thier communities for the good of all to be ‘tyrants’ thus you find them to be immoral.

So you would have it that they should not have this right being that to utilize it would make them tyrants in your eyes and thus they must then live in torment without end having no say or representation on things they find are corrupting their community.


69 posted on 09/10/2011 11:26:34 PM PDT by TheBigIf
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