From one piece When Is It OK to Decide for Other People? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Small, reversible, learnable decisions between equally informed sides should be left to people, with no paternalismTheir words
Small decision? Reversible? Easy to learn from? Both sides equally informed? Then leave people alone — that is exactly the territory where freedom to make our own mistakes is how we learn, and where paternalism has no business.
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Put these four together — a big decision, hard to reverse, resistant to learning, with deep information asymmetry — and under those conditions I feel much more comfortable saying: let’s not make everyone figure this out alone.
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If people are predictably irrational, maybe their decisions need help and sometimes their options need limitingTheir words
If people are predictably irrational, then maybe we also need to help improve their decisions. Maybe, sometimes, we need to limit their options.