Goodperson Fever

Do you know about Goodperson Fever? You can find out at The House of Eratosthenes:

Goodperson Fever (n.) is an obsessive-compulsive disorder involving the demonstration of certain positive attributes to strangers, for purposes of self-validation. In government and in other positions of authority, Goodperson Fever is the cause of nearly every bad law in human history. Someone, somewhere, wanted to demonstrate to strangers what a good person he or she was.

Although this post was written in 2009, it seems even more relevant to today's news now.

Read more here: http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog/i-made-a-new-word-xxviii/