paternalistic

paternalism | American Dictionary

paternalism
noun[ U ]
us/pəˈtɜr·nəlˌɪz·əm/
the practice of controlling esp. employees or citizens in a way that is similar to that of a father controlling his children, by giving them what is beneficial but not allowing them responsibility or freedom of choice

paternalistic

adjectiveus/pəˌtɜr·nəlˈɪs·tɪk/
a paternalistic employer

Examples of paternalism

paternalism
Some paternalism aims merely to provide benefits, though.
Others merely hoped for a modern viable form of paternalism.
They should not expect to encounter frequently the epistemic paternalism that some healthcare ethics committees have adopted.
This is not to say that paternalism will never be justified.
Paternalism cohered with both the prevailing ethics of clinical care and the legal standards of informed consent for clinical care at that time.
It is this aspect of paternalism within public health ethics which we wish to consider briefly now in relation to our subsequent exploration of transableism.
This creates the possibility of exploitation (paternalism in the bad sense).
However, the personal welfare argument is rarely invoked on its own, because it is generally recognized as paternalism.
This aura of paternalism is then augmented by suggestions that ' careful and informed interventions ' are required to guide ethnicity in a more tolerant direction.
For these familiar reasons, argument about legal paternalism by example and counterexample is almost bound to end up uncertain and tentative.
There is then a distributive-justice aspect to the issue of paternalism.
It is a huge and difficult undertaking, but such are the costs of any principled defense of paternalism.
Though that is hardly a brief for paternalism, it should make us-at least those of us with liberal sympathies-rather concerned.
Should we consider these "flexible negotiations" a form of benevolent paternalism?
Freedom seems a good thing when the path is clear, but if the road gets rocky, paternalism and collective mechanisms are preferred.
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