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Protected from yourself
Should the law protect you from your own bad choices?
Mill argued that the only reason to restrain someone against their will is to prevent harm to others. Seatbelt laws, sugar taxes and drug bans all disagree.
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Nearby questions
- The oracle you can't refuseAn oracle exists that always gives the wisest possible answer to any decision — which city, which job, whom to marry. It has never once been wrong. How much of your life do you hand it?
- Could you have done otherwise?Do you have free will?
- Why do you do what you reject?Can you know what's right and still not do it?
- Nothing to hideIf you've done nothing wrong, should you mind being watched?
- Predicted before you choseIf a system can predict what you will choose before you know it yourself, is the choice still yours?
