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 Some people are so sure that they know what’s best for everyone else, yet equally sure that no one else could possibly know what’s best for them. They are meddlers, and I find it’s best to avoid giving those people much of my attention.  
 You’re right about that! 
 And those very same times will scold libertarians and say they’re arrogant and anti social. 
 These people become dictators 
 We like to play around with the MBTI stuff, and these people are always ENTJ. Usually fat or otherwise unhealthy. It's not scientific, but it is a pattern. 
 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. 

-- C. S. Lewis17 
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