CAS PO 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Negative Liberty, Paternalism, Synecdoche

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Harms are not objective and are more legitimate in the government. Cumulative harms: if one person or a couple people do it, it"s not harmful but if many do it, it causes a problem. Positive liberty: power to choose your own life path. Other necessary things are needed to exercise liberty. Liberals v. conservatives is really negative v. positive. Problems are not objective, socially constructed over time. Story of decline: things getting bad and then worse. Prediction of some sort of crisis and a way to prevent this crisis. The frustrated problem story: in the beginning it was bad but then something is interfering with the solution and now its going to get worse. American businesses say that gov"t is making economic situation worse. Control is actually in the hand of the victims. Problem is something we can fix, condition is systemic and not fixable. We expect certain amount of death in health but accidental in transportation.

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