As far as I'm concerned, laws that require drivers to wear seatbelts are paternalistic.
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Paternalistic
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This law is paternalistic.
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With a scanty supply of laws in Hellenic commonwealths or city states what an immense vista for an Aristotle, of that grand, complex, efficient machinery of law, turning out yearly thousands of laws and taboos for the paternalistic control and alleged welfare of the citizen!
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