An addendum to yesterday's observations:
C.S. Lewis famously wrote: “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.”
What could be more illustrative of the prophetic truth of these words than the new rules proposed by New York’s Mayor Bloomberg to ban the purchase of sugary soft drinks in excess of 16 fl. oz.? But this shouldn’t surprise us. After all, when a population (like ours) gradually surrenders its freedom to what amounts to a “benevolent dictatorship,” all for what we mistakenly think is “security,” we end up with neither security nor benevolence. We just get tyranny.
Is government today the "new nanny"? Or perhaps the "new pharaoh"? Next time we buy a Coke, let's make it a large one, in honor of this new definition of "pro-choice"!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Eagle-Bible-Lessons-Liberty/dp/0985439408/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338731900&sr=8-1
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