At What Point Does Tyranny Begin?

[capttankona]

I am posting a quote so that you have an idea of where my thoughts are coming from. My question is, when do we actually cross over to becoming a tyranny. Are we a soft tyranny already? Are you happy with where we are in Governing?

"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."

Clive Staples Lewis – Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster (1898-1963)

[NudeTea]

Not sure ~ still ~ where your thoughts are coming from. But your Lewis quote put my brain right into a recall of Claiming Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaire.


I am posting a quote so that you have an idea of where my thoughts are coming from. My question is, when do we actually cross over to becoming a tyranny. Are we a soft tyranny already? Are you happy with where we are in Governing?

"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."

Clive Staples Lewis – Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster (1898-1963)

[oreokid]

maybe the crossover point is when you begin to object?