[rlmorel]

"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."
C.S. Lewis.

Bears repeating. C.S. Lewis knew of what he spoke. How prescient he was.

[GOPJ]

Are Biden and his commie goons still passing out crack pipes?

[Red Badger]

The obverse is also true:

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.- Robert A. Heinlein ....................