Eating sugary food, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are
legal activities. But politicians still use the law to discourage
them. They raise their price, prohibit or limit their
advertisement, restrict where they can be sold and consumed, and
sometimes ban them outright. These politicians thereby violate John
Stuart Mill's famous principle that people should be free to do
whatever they like, provided they harm no one but themselves. Why?
What can justify these paternalistic policies? Killjoys reviews the
full range of justifications that have been offered: from the idea
that people are too irrational to make sensible decisions to the
idea that they are effectively compelled by advertising to harm
themselves. The author, Christopher Snowdon, exposes the logical or
factual errors that undermine each purported justification. He thus
provides a comprehensive critique of the health paternalism that
has been adopted by governments around the world.
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