I also suspect that we don't need to look at history to see the backing proof. The SJW religion is very much what this quote is talking about and it's never been more relevant about the tyranny of the preachers of that religion as they mob anyone who disagrees.
The point is that "actual" tyrannical robbers are bad - and there's no denying that... but so are those who are worse in the name of "good".
> The SJW religion
> but so are those who are worse in the name of "good".
And how exactly is the "sjw religion" worse in the name of good? I get it. You don't like people calling you out if you do shitty things. But that doesn't make it worse than robber barons. Or even in the same ballpark.
"how is the sjw religion worse in the name of good" years of violent protests? Millions... billions?... of damage done? People killed?
Or do you agree that peoples lives should be destroyed if they do something you disagree with? Mobs of people calling the friends, family, work places, etc of someone who dares do something you disagree with?
I personally know someone who works in a rescue... someone got a bug in their butt that she did something "wrong". She's been hounded for weeks by The Righteous who have the Holy Word that she did "wrong" - no matter the nuances about what happened.
You can ignore the violence, the mobs, the hounding and the overall shitty attitudes of the SJW Religous... but they are literally the modern day Crusaders who have The Holy Decree to destroy the Heathens.
You want to know how SJWs are worse in the name of good? Open your eyes and look at all the "worse" done on a daily basis. I could list dozens or hundreds of publicly available examples but if you can't ALREADY see them without me pointing them out?
We can agree that C.S. Lewis' quote is not a scientific theory, but that doesn't make it incorrect.
For example, to the extent that the various Communist regimes fall under this descriptor, C.S. Lewis may have a point.
Are you dismissing this out of some logical-positivist impulse, because you reject the idea that well-intentioned groups can behave tyrannically, or because you don't think anybody acts with good intentions?
I read the comment as saying that actual robber barons are worse than busy bodies.
Take the oil and gas industry for example. They have known for 40+ years that they cause global climate change while disavowing it publicly and funding fake scientists and interest groups to spread FUD about it. I think the effects of global climate change will be at least an order of magnitude worse than well intentioned busy bodies. Climate change doesn't sleep.
(You could easily say the same about the tobacco industry, advertising monopolies, social networking websites, etc.)
I'm not sure I follow your opinion on the quote... I don't see the oil/gas companies as "tyrannical" entities. Nor would I personally apply this to companies from tobacco to Google...
"they have known about climate change" and those who know about it also have said we'll be dead in 1980... 1990... the seas will rise a dozen feet in 2000 and the snowcaps will be gone in 2010. If the "tyrannical" companies are wrong...
If you want to go that route that Oil Companies are Robber Barons... that would make the GCC doomsayers the "good" guys who are as bad on the other end - and have no problem being as bad with their lies and happy about it because it matches their conscience.
what does that say about the doomsayers? Exxon knew? When did the doomsayers know that their predictions were bunk? They are the "omnipotent moral busybodies" who have no care that all of their predictions are wrong and the damage - past, present and future - of their lies? Who cares because they are "Saving the Planet"...
