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 consciences.
- Clive Staples Lewis
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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.
Last Saturday morning an armed robbery was attempted at the Nacka Forum mall not far from where I live.
A good friend of mine was a bank manager for many years. He told me that robberies are much more common than you might think: bank employees are trained to comply with robbers' demands, minimizing losses by keeping relatively small amounts of cash in their drawers.
In "Point Blank", Kleck analyzed NCVS data and found that while 38% of
people who used any means of self-protection against robbers were
injured in the encounter, only 17% (the lowest for any means for
self-protection) of people who use a gun for self-defence against