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‘The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.’
- Aldous Huxley
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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.
CS Lewis
Never discount the appeal of being a sadist when it comes to forcibly changing someone else "for their own good". The deaths and the cruelty don't matter at all as long as the soul is saved,
n'est pas?
