Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books About Oddballs Resisting Conformity

On 11/06/2025 19:48, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <102cgun$248b1$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6/11/2025 10:11 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five SFF Books About Oddballs Resisting Conformity
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Imagine tyranny as carried out by well-meaning high school guidance
counselors.

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“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.”
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- C.S. Lewis

 Dolores Umbridge is one of the great truly evil characters.

I'm inclined to disagree with C. S. Lewis.
Perhaps he makes more sense in context.
I count Dolores Umbridge as attempting to
murder Harry Potter before, I think, he or
we know that she exists.  This isn't for
his good, but she may believe that killing
him is for the good of everyone else.
But I don't think she has a coherent policy.