What are the 5 features of paternalism?
What are the 5 features of paternalism?
Paternalism is a concept. It is also a kind of behavior where the state or the individual is involved in the life of the other individual or the group and limits the personal liberty of the individual or the groups and the autonomy for that person's or the whole group's own good. It is implied that the behavior is against or also with the will of the person.
The major features of paternalism are,
- it is rooted and developed in the indigenous psychologies of the cultures of the Asian, Latin American, and middle eastern nations.
- it is always perceived negatively by the western and industrially developed nations.
- it also remains the issue that always evolves the opinions in almost opposite directions in the eastern and western cultures.
- it can be constructed at the individual level, organizational, and also the socio-cultural levels.
- the actions or the interference of the state or individual into the other individual's life by expecting a certain kind of benefits from the indulgence.
Paternalism is of several types. The major is the soft and hard paternalism. Hard paternalism is the one that would permit the restrictions of the liberty of an individual to prevents the actions of suicide or personal even when the person is fully aware of the actions that he/she is doing. Soft paternalism is primarily concerned with the person's autonomy and by justifying the person's liberty as predicting the individual's action to commit the harm to himself.
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