I don’t think anything could sum up my attitude to the recent UK elections better than this quote from C.S. Lewis’ “God in the Dock”:

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.

And whilst we’re at it - a picture speaks a thousand words. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an eloquent argument for the right to bear arms as this one:

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