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The 32 pages that link to Paternalism, each with the reason it gives.

• AlmsgivingRelated: Aid can become paternalistic when donors dictate how recipients should live or use support.

• Negative libertyRelated: It tests whether protecting people from their own choices violates negative liberty.

• Albert SchweitzerRelated: Critics have examined paternalistic elements in Schweitzer’s authority and hospital practices.

• The Golden RuleRelated: The rule can invite well-meant treatment that overrides another person’s expressed wishes.

• Asian valuesRelated: It connects appeals to social welfare with defenses of strong political authority.

• PityRelated: Pity can encourage help that overrides the agency of the person receiving it.

• Thomas SzaszRelated: His liberty-based critique rejected paternalistic intervention in adults’ lives.

• Victimless crimeRelated: It explains laws defended as protecting people from self-regarding risks.

• Benevolent dictatorshipRelated: The ruler's claim to know what benefits the public gives authoritarian control a paternalistic rationale.

• Frédéric Le PlayRelated: His preferred employer-family relations relied on protective authority rather than worker autonomy.

• George FitzhughRelated: He portrayed enslavers as guardians responsible for enslaved people’s welfare.