Non-Libertarian Paternalism

Many Americans love shopping, especially during the holidays, with its captivating discounts and sales, which lead to uncontrollable splurges on irrelevant things. According to Quindlen, this is an example of America’s crazed consumerism and it is absolutely absurd. In her article, “Honestly, You Shouldn’t Have”, she states that there is currently an assumption that purchasing American merchandises symbolize an act of patriotism and at the same time, build a strong economy. She also states that we, as Americans, need to acknowledge important spiritual values such as friends and family rather than material goods.

The art and craft of shoppers is no longer just running to the store to get some necessities. Shopping has evolved into much more than just a thirty-minute trip to the one local market in your area. Shoppers nowadays have more power in where they choose to spend and what they choose to buy. Because of this, the shoppers and companies have evolved with the expanding consumer pastime that is shopping. Anne Norton focuses on how retail companies have evolved in order to manipulate consumers into buying their product while Malcolm Gladwell uses a consultant, Paco Underhill, to explain how retail companies can analyze and influence human behavior in order to sell their goods; the combination of these articles creates a chess-like game between

The sacrifices necessary to create a society are not in the emotional makeup of Objectivists and the lack of clear cut benefits would prevent any community that embodies these views from growing large enough to establish a large scale inter-dependent development of

Freidman believed economic freedom to be an essential need in securing political freedom. Any manipulation on a person’s economic freedom such as a tax for social security takes away from a person’s total freedom. To provide total freedom to the people coercion must not exist (Friedman, 1975). It is economic power that can balance political power. When the market is left alone under the invisible hand it balances out both what the seller and consumer desire.

My Political Compass Economic Left/Right: -6.0 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.08. Taking this class and learning more on what separates the political parties’. I may need to reconsider the party I have claimed myself to be. I do not think I would have changed my votes from the past years.

In most cases, theses wants affect the environment and companies. Consumption is not an issue until people take it too far and cannot reverse the effects like in the essays “The Squeeze,” “Waste Not, Want Not,” and “Needs”. Accordingly, Charles Fishman in his essay, “The Squeeze,” states that Americans spend money on products that are not necessary for hefty amounts. Fishman glances on the corporate side when discussing consumption.

Libertarians believe that each person owns his own life and property and has the right to make his own choices as to how he lives his life and uses his property – as long as he simply respects the equal right of others to do the same.” (theadvocates.org). Libertarians believe in three policies, no paternalism, no morals legislation, and no redistribution of income or wealth (Sandel,59). No paternalism, is against the laws that protect individuals from harm, so essentially it’s saying that if an individual decides to partake in reckless behavior and no one but the individual performing the risky behavior is harmed or affected, there should be no laws preventing the individual from performing that behavior (for example, not wearing a seatbelt). No

The article “The Science of Shopping” written by New Yorker staff writer Malcom Gladwell, is based on retail anthropologist and urban geographer Paco Underhill. Underhill studies the shopping characteristics through frequently watched surveillance tapes to help store managers improve the setup of their goods and services. Through those footages he evaluated his observations and the statistics to help define his theories with the purpose to make sellers conform to the desires of the shoppers. Underhill, an insightful and revolutionary man, provides a view of science to displaying merchandise and creates a positive experience for both the buyer and seller. I agree that Underhill’s scientific theories; the Invariant Right, Decompression

The Paradox of Thrift from the Invisible Hand podcast series features a clear economic principle. Everyone has the freedom of choice in the market and this control over their own economic prosperity. According to this principle, individuals make voluntary decisions based on their best judgement of opportunities in the marketplace. This freedom of choice will then collectively affect the market in a natural process. As a result, individuals usually make rational decisions based on self-interest which will promote entrepreneurial activity, economic growth, individual wealth, and ultimately the common good.

Furthermore, Nozick would object to Switzerland’s minimum income referendum on the premise that it is an unjust transfer. According to Nozick’s entitlement theory, to be just, a holding (individuals’ money) must either stem from a just original acquisition, stem from an act of just original acquisition followed by just transfer, or stem from a just rectification counteracting an unjust taking or just holding. According to Nozick, Switzerland’s proposed minimum income referendum satisfies none of these requisites. Initial acquisition comes from varying inheritances, which are inherently unjust. Therefore, it is imperative to examine Switzerland’s proposal from Nozick’s third principle.

Primarily, the personal liberties of the individuals. With having a primary emphasis on personal liberties, libertarianism believes in as little government interaction as possible because of the belief that a strong government will result in a loss of the personal liberties of the people. As said by Sharon Harris, the President of Advocates for Self-Government, “Libertarians believe that each person owns his own life and property and has the right to make his own choices as to how he lives his life and uses his property – as long as he simply respects the equal right of others to do the same” (theadvocates.org). In short, each person has the sole control of how they choose to live their live and control their property, as long as the basic rights of man are respected, there is no need for interference from the government. The primary followers of libertarianism are individuals who believe that the government has become too strong and too involved in the lives of the people.

To properly improve Mental Health Care, first we must look toward mental health care and how Autonomy and Paternalism play a vital role when discussing the improvement of this health care service, especially for children and adolescents. Mental health care is often treated in a paternalistic type of care and often not with an autonomous viewpoint. This is primarily due to the mental state the patient is in and can result in the individual not being able to make the proper decisions to improve his or her well-being. A balance between both Paternalism and Autonomy must be regarded so that the patient receiving the care is given the best possible treatment that is equal and fair. When a patient is being treated for their mental health disorder,

Before the anaphora she explains what “shopping” is, then uses anaphora to provide the different reasons one may shop. These reasons show that shopping is not about obtaining necessities, the modern day has transformed shopping to provide many other benefits. It demonstrates that some people are becoming reliant on shopping to attain benefits such as decision making, be apart of society, or to cheer themselves up. These other benefits display why people enjoy shopping and are becoming more

INTRODUCTION An economic system is defined by the various processes of organizing and motivating labour, producing, distributing, and circulating of the resultant of human labour, such as merchandise and services, consumer durables , machines, tools, and other technology used as intake for hereafter production, and the infrastructure within and through which production, apportionment , and circulation occurs. These arrangements are intended by the political, cultural, and environmental conditions which they co-exist together (Gemma; 2014). In a command economic system or planned economy, the federal government controls the economy by deciding how the state would use and distribute resources. The government also regulates prices and wages

The past hundred years give or take has given society many number of conflicts, many of which revolve around economic systems. The method of which the government runs a certain state not only symbolizes the way they handle their officials, but also symbolizes how their production is handled. The economic systems mentioned will be centrally planned systems and market planned systems. Although these could be characterized as many different economy systems such as socialism, only communism and capitalism will be discussed. By proving that the communistic and capitalistic systems both have positives and negatives, choosing which is best is simply not realistic.