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Forensics The interacting with a patient as a father would with a child—e.g., surrogate decision-making, which may limit autonomy or be contrary to the patient’s wishes
NIHspeak Making decisions for others against or apart from their wishes with the intent of doing them good

paternalism

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A type of medical decision making in which health care professionals exercise unilateral authority over patients. When patients are competent to make their own choices and health care professionals seek to act in the patients' best interests, shared decision making is preferable, because it encourages dialogue, preserves autonomy, fosters responsibility, and allows for adaptation.

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Perhaps the classic example of a libertarian paternalist nudge is switching the default rule on participation in employer-sponsored savings plans--401Ks, etc.--from opt-in (where the employee must sign up for the plan) to opt-out (where the employee is automatically enrolled but may withdraw if she chooses).

From Gadfly to Nudge: The Genesis of Libertarian Paternalism

We see libertarian paternalism as particularly threatening because this paternalist explicitly seeks to nudge irrational citizens toward choices that the paternalist deems best and away from choices that the citizens may have regretted.

Infantilization by regulation: like helicopter parenting government policies to protect people from "cognitive biases " risk stunting their ability to avoid and handle mistakes

the new paternalists. Behavioral law and economics postulates that

Paternalism, social exchange and the law

Selection confusion indicates that the efforts of libertarian paternalists to incentivize "good actions" may prove insufficient to obtain good results (p.

Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism

But it is also a welcome challenge to a currently fashionable theory that libertarians and paternalists alike should read with pleasure.

The Manipulation of Choice: Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism

we have also seen that means paternalists would consider a fuel-economy

Behavioral economics and paternalism

paternalist. The wild and childish Irishman thus becomes the empathetic

Irish maternalism and motherland in gone with the wind

This strikes me as the paternalist's greatest challenge to the claim that the criminal law must honor deontic rights, and so permit a great many blameworthy (that is, suberogatory) actions.

Paternalism on pain of punishment

Libertarian paternalists offer a novel answer to these questions.

Trick or treat?

Suffice it to say we would need to explore deeper issues such as practical reason internalism versus externalism, whether reasons internalism can yield a principle or principles that defeat neutral paternalism, whether any viable liberal theory has the equipment to levy a justificatory burden that neutral paternalists cannot meet--without having troublesome implications in other areas of political morality, etc.

How not to argue against paternalism

The old principle handed down from ancient rhetoric remains as valid as ever: `Those who assert must prove.' The burden of proof falls to the New Paternalists to give us some good reasons for thinking that all -- or even most, or even very many -- of the non-working poor have the peculiar combination of frustrated preferences and weaknesses of will they insist on attributing to them.

FALSE PRINCIPLES OF WELFARE REFORM

Critics of the community service requirement characterized it as forced servitude and its proponents as anti-poor paternalists who equate poverty with immorality.