[extropy-chat] Libertarian paternalism

[Damien Sullivan]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:24:49PM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Damien Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/richard.thaler/research/LIbpatLaw.pdf
> >
> > Cass Sunsteina and Richard Thaler defend what they call libertarian
> > paternalism, on grounds of bounded rationality.
> 
> Ha!   If they put those two words together in one phrase one may be  
> quite sure that their rationality is [very] bounded indeed.  Such  
> steering of choice amounts to a likely imposition of force  
> incompatible with libertarianism.  It also to some degree derails  

Did you actually read the paper?  Any of it?

-xx- Damien X-)