Paternalism is the practice by some governments of imposing regulations meant to promote their citizens' own good regardless of whether the citizens consent to those regulations  However, many members of free societies disapprove when individual freedom is curtailed for the sake of what the government deems to be the citizens' own good
They generally believe that they, not the government, know what activities are in their best interest
In free societies, many of a government's citizens disapprove of their government's acts of paternalism.