Re:Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians?
by yellowapple on Saturday October 15, 2016 @09:28PM
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I'm by no means trying to imply that such a thing should be forced. On the contrary: it should be encouraged, sure, but the decision to embrace diversity must be a voluntary one. No tyranny wanted or needed here; the benefits of avoiding the stagnation of a monoculture should be apparent enough.
C. S. Lewis said it better than I possibly ever could:
"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."
Even as a liberal, I find the "It's for their own good" argument frequently advanced by modern authoritarian liberals to be insufferably arrogant. We're all adults here and we deserve the opportunity to chart our own course in life, whether for good or for ill.