There is someone in my life whom I love dearly, yet we have to agree to disagree on most things. I'll keep this person's identity private, but let's just say I like to think I had a major impact on his life. Yet and still, we do not ever discuss anything remotely close to politics.
All this in mind, I was amazed and astounded to find the following quote on his blog today.
Maybe he reads it differently than I do. Here it is:
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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