Of all tyrannies, a tyranny excercised for the good of its
victim 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 consciences.
-- C.S. Lewis, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment," quoted in
_A Mind Awake_, edited by C S Kilby (1968)
