This is why we must never trust the "elites" to govern society.  They think they know better than  us, they think they know what's good for us, and in their arrogance they will not listen to any other voices. 

C. S. Lewis said it best, 100 years ago: 
“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.”