CMN 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ronald Weitzer, Making Money

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3105
• Professor: Stuart Chambers

Document Summary

Millian liberalism and two conflicting principles: harm and truth. Anybody who engages in that second-guesses a person"s choices with the goal. They will stop you from a behaviour because they know that if you were in any type of sane thought you wouldn"t do this behaviour. Trying to influence someone in something that you believe in, not forcing them. Soft paternalist acts as a proxy for you. They are controlling you just until your back to your sane mind. E. g. taking the keys out of a drunken person"s hands. Editorial, op-eds are trying to do soft paternalism; they are trying to influence someone of doing a behaviour they do not believe in. Hard paternalism (perfectionism): you take the position that you overrule someone"s choices, even when they are of sane mind. There are absolute rights and wrongs to perfectionist. A perfect world, that"s the way its set up.