^{Selfish Citizens Demand Tyrannical Government}
Being tyrannised by your emotions means becoming an agent for that tyranny. If your fear makes you abandon smoking, then you will demand everyone stops smoking. If your unfettered instincts make you revere children then you will demand that everyone reveres children. And inevitably if there are enough selfish people who share the same whimsical notions, they will form groups that demand these notions be enshrined by law. That is, they will set out to force the whole community to adopt the demands of their own feelings (see Political Correctness), which of course is rule by menace, and is tyranny.

^{The Nature Of Rule By The Selfish}
The tyranny demanded by the selfish must reflect their understanding and is:

1. Irrational: A quality that explains both the absurdity of the laws they enact, as well as the unreasonable nature of the proponents of these laws

2. Immoral: Hence the target of social stigma moves from people who ignore moral restraint to people who ignore the burgeoning statutes demanded by the selfish; which is why it is now (2004) socially acceptable to be an unmarried mother or to publicly express obscenities, but not to smoke cigarettes in the office or to walk a dog off the leash.