Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis. Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups.
Libertarian paternalism is an oxymoron because it is totally at odds with the second argument. Okay fine, you are not forcing anyone to do anything. But you are still assuming that top men can properly deduce what the right things people ought to be doing are.
Paternalism is action limiting a person's or group's liberty or autonomy which is intended to promote their own good. Paternalism can also imply that the behavior is against or regardless of the will of a person, or also that the behavior expresses an attitude of superiority. Paternalism, paternalistic and paternalist have all been used as a pejorative. The word paternalism is from the Latin pater father via the adjective paternus fatherly. Some, such as John Stuart Mill, think paternalism t