By Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., Chronicles - The mechanisms are consistent across these contexts: moral absolutism, cognitive rigidity, and the desire for control. Good intentions, when detached from prudence and responsibility, create tyranny. This is why both large-scale utopian projects and small-scale moral policing are forces of social destruction rather than renewal... The alternative is not to abandon morality but to temper it with humility, realism, and an ethic of responsibility. Healthy political and social communities are built not by imposing utopias but by nurturing voluntary associations, pluralism, and incremental reform.