Against Paternalistic Claims of "Degradation"

Against Paternalistic Claims of "Degradation" And other purely metaphysical harms One of the trickier questions in ethics is when (if ever) we’re justified in paternalistic judgments that another person has misidentified their own best interests. As an objective list theorist about well-being, I do think that people can be mistaken about what’s intrinsically good or bad for them: “Some things (such as love and happiness) are inherently more worth caring about than others (such as counting...