paternalism

You would begin talking to some poor devil who had worked in one shop for the last thirty years, and had never been able to save a penny; who left home every morning at six o'clock, to go and tend a machine, and come back at night too tired to take his clothes off; who had never had a week's vacation in his life, had never traveled, never had an adventure, never learned anything, never hoped anything--and when you started to tell him about Socialism he would sniff and say, "I'm not interested in that--I'm an individualist!" And then he would go on to tell you that Socialism was "paternalism," and that if it ever had its way the world would stop progressing.

These difficulties with identifying a collective intent create problems for a theory of paternalism that relies on intent.

A central argument, applicable to any kind of paternalism (soft or hard, means or ends), is that errors are more likely to come from officials than from individuals.

Paternalism, Disagreements, and the Moral Difference, DANIEL GROLL

Answering questions like this requires, first and foremost, a definition of paternalism, but traditional notions of paternalism are not up for the task.

This article analyzes privacy agreement texts and cookie consent information collected from 60 news sites in three countries (U.S., UK, and Sweden) within the context of paternalism. The goal of this study is to explore how paternalism is present in news media companies' stated reasons for collecting behavioral data.

In real life, paternalism rarely goes to such extremes.

"Paternalism feels safer but look where paternalism got us.

First: This is soft paternalism. This isn't about giving these workers access to a retirement plan.

After elucidating the potential problems of hubris, paternalism, projection, and failure, I raise a hypothetical example to press these concerns, focusing on the permissibility of deception.

Though the author posits in the introduction that the descendants of colonial era Minorcan immigrants helped maintain Spanish-era moderation in terms of race relations during the antebellum period, he generally ignores this contention throughout the book and does not address their role in his conclusion, which consists of only a few pages conflated into the final chapter titled "Land, Paternalism, and Laws." More extended analysis of these arguments would have strengthened this work.