But the bans begun in the 1970s strike many Third Worlders as a particularly noxious example of Western paternalism.
Moral vs. welfare paternalism The usual justification for paternalism refers to the interests of the person being interfered with.
More generally, we might accept what Feinberg called " soft paternalism.
Only they now have a sense of benign paternalism to any developing civilization.
Others, such as Beauchamp and Childress, justify paternalism not through consent but solely by beneficence.
Richard Dimbleby's benevolent paternalism was set alongside the differing personalities of Michelmore and, to a greater extent, Whicker.
There was the paternalism of a Frederick the Great in his encouragement of the silk industry, - "which all idle people ought to be made to work at," - in his encouragement of commerce through the newly acquired port of Marseilles and the opening up of market placed.
This rules out, among other things, conceptions of 'positive liberty ' that really involve paternalism.
To be sure it is not always easy to distinguish between legal moralism and moral paternalism.