[reference addendum added 10/2/18]
I read many sources of many viewpoints, including a private newsletter (therefore I can’t link to it) from an organization with a Libertarian bent, which recently published an article concerning the career impact of Samantha Power and her interventionist advice to a former community organizer with no international experience who was given a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing but spouting slogans (The reputation and stature of said peace prize franchise instantly destroyed by that gesture¹). The article was (rightly) not flattering, but it did contain a couple of quotes worth repeating:
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. Lewis
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
—H.L. Mencken
I hope the reader will immediately see the obvious truth of these observations as they apply to those who claim to know what is best for everyone, then usually exempt themselves, and then create a state (in both the intellectual and political senses) where any common-sense dissent to their policies results in the liberal social democracy fascism that has fully permeated our universities, that among other things, has corrupted common-sense and common decency concerning who should use what toilets.
¹ Despite many rumors and spoofs, the Nobel Committee has not rescinded (as a matter of policy) the prize but there have been some subdued afterthoughts.
[the following added 10/2/18] Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the peace prize in 1991 but her actions since receiving her award have raised desires to withdraw her prize.
