Paternalism:

When Reasonable People Would Allow Others to Make Decisions for Them

(Bayles)

1. Trivial: "A person might not wish to bother making decisions because the differences involved are trivial."

2. Need Expertise: "the decisions might require knowledge or expertise a person does not possess."

3. Incompetence: "A person might allow others to make judgments if he or she is or will be mentally incompetent."


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 2 March 2010