Saturday, May 24, 2008

For your own good!

Don't you just hate this phrase? I do! I hate totalitarian regimes (whether it is a government, a school administration or parents at home) who decide for you what is good and what's not! Thank you but no thanks, I can make my own decisions, I don't need people deciding on my behalf, I can figure things on my own. Nothing makes any of you more capable than me in making decisions that affects me, I know me more than any of you do!
Tyranny can take many forms, from banning access to some specific commodities, to dictating how and by what amount they can be used.

"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 own conscience."
—C. S. Lewis

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