would be hard paternalism.

There is also the question of if the length of incompetence plays a hand in the permissibility of paternalism. It seems obvious that if a person is permanently incompetent to make their own decisions paternalism is permissible, but if the incompetence is only temporary, the answer is not as clear.

Pure and impure forms

Pure paternalism is paternalism where the people having their liberty or autonomy taken away are those being protected. Impure paternalism occurs when the class of people whose

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