Conservatives Want To Make People Virtuous; Liberals Want To Make Them Healthy.

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Conservatives want to make people virtuous; liberals want to make
them healthy. Both believe that using the state to accomplish their
aims is legitimate. That is why both conservatives and liberals favor
anti-drug laws, psychiatric coercions, and other assaults against
individual freedom and responsibility couched in therapeutic terms.
-- Thomas S. Szasz

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