{"id":366,"date":"2020-05-26T23:19:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2021-04-05T02:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T07:56:35","slug":"sobre-las-tiranias-bondadosas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/sobre-las-tiranias-bondadosas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sobre las tiran\u00edas bondadosas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control.jpg 800w, http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Ilustraci\u00f3n de Luca D&#8217;Urbino en <em>The Economist<\/em>, 26 de marzo de 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">&#8220;De todas las tiran\u00edas, una tiran\u00eda sinceramente ejercitada por el bienestar de sus v\u00edctimas podr\u00eda ser la m\u00e1s opresiva. Ser\u00eda mejor vivir bajo magnates ladrones que bajo entrometidos moralistas omnipotentes. La crueldad del magnate ladr\u00f3n puede a veces descansar, su codicia puede en alg\u00fan punto ser saciada; pero aquellos que nos atormentan por nuestro propio bien nos atormentar\u00e1n sin tregua porque lo hacen con la aprobaci\u00f3n de su propia conciencia. Podr\u00edan muy probablemente ir al Cielo pero al mismo tiempo lo m\u00e1s probable es que conviertan a la tierra en un Infierno. Su misma bondad punza como un intolerable insulto. Ser &#8216;curado&#8217; contra la propia voluntad y curado de estados que podr\u00edamos no considerar una enfermedad es ser puesto al nivel de aquellos que no han alcanzado a\u00fan la edad de la raz\u00f3n o de aquellos que nunca la alcanzar\u00e1n; es ser clasificado con los infantes, los imb\u00e9ciles y los animales dom\u00e9sticos.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u2014 <strong>C.S. Lewis<\/strong>, <em>Dios en el banquillo &#8211; Ensayos sobre teolog\u00eda y \u00e9tica<\/em><br><em>(1970)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">Traducido por contranatura.org<br><strong>English version<\/strong> in page 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control.jpg 800w, http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/contranatura.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid19-everything-is-under-control-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Illustration by Luca D&#8217;Urbino in <em>The Economist<\/em>, 26 March 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">\u201cOf 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\u2019s 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. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be \u201ccured\u201d against one\u2019s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u2014 <strong>C.S. Lewis<\/strong>, <em>God in the Dock &#8211; Essays on Theology and Ethics<\/em><br><em>(1970)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;De todas las tiran\u00edas, una tiran\u00eda sinceramente ejercitada por el bienestar de sus v\u00edctimas podr\u00eda ser la m\u00e1s opresiva. Ser\u00eda mejor vivir bajo magnates ladrones que bajo entrometidos moralistas omnipotentes. 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