The whole Russia/Ukraine dumpster fire along with the long-delayed economic slow-motion collapse has only added veracity to your observations on the whole “let us do evil so good may come” mentality. I can’t believe for the most part that they truly believe the words coming out of their own mouths. Or at least I hope not. If they aren’t merely evil but also incredibly dull-witted and stupid enough to believe their own lies, well, we may be in for a worse time of than I thought. C.S. Lewis put it very well:
“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. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
The whole Russia/Ukraine dumpster fire along with the long-delayed economic slow-motion collapse has only added veracity to your observations on the whole “let us do evil so good may come” mentality. I can’t believe for the most part that they truly believe the words coming out of their own mouths. Or at least I hope not. If they aren’t merely evil but also incredibly dull-witted and stupid enough to believe their own lies, well, we may be in for a worse time of than I thought. C.S. Lewis put it very well:
“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. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”