Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

So true.

That’s what I think about speed limits. if we didn’t have those I could just zoom around at any hyper velocity through the neighborhood. I am oppressed because I can’t save the time I need to do other things. Stop taking care of me with your stupid laws.

Maybe I want to inspect my own food. I certainly do not need government bureaucrats doing something I don’t want them doing in the first place! Who appointed them, anyway? Oh, right, the tyrannical oppressors protecting me from myself. Well who needs it!

And housing codes! Whose business is it whether my house falls down on me or not? Just mine, period. Stupid city council trying to protect me from myself - and raising the cost of my house to boot. End It Now!

We would be a lot better off if we didn’t regulate medicine: you would see an explosion of cures for things which don’t exist now. Sure, some of them might not work, but the free market would take care of that in its own way (creative death, I call it).

And requiring accountants and lawyers and investment counselors to subscribe to an ethics code? Who needs it? Surely the tiny fraction of dishonest lawyers would be revealed quickly and shut out of the profession without onerous regulation requiring them to operate transparently in the interest of their clients, right?

Oh, you could go through everything in our modern life and see that we’d be so much better off without this tyranny of do-gooders. If I want to be a victim, I should be allowed to be. Period.