{"id":332,"date":"2011-05-20T16:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=332"},"modified":"2011-05-21T22:51:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:51:12","slug":"whats-the-real-root-of-objections-to-a-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s at the root of objections to real freedom? Paternalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Paternalism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-337\" title=\"Paternalism\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Paternalism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve realized that the objections to allowing people to have real individual freedom are all rooted in a bias toward top-down thinking. If you believe that you must know about (and approve of) the plans other people would make for themselves before you&#8217;re willing to allow everyone to live as they want in a free society, it means you want to substitute your judgement for what others might decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve realized that the objections to allowing people to have real individual freedom are all rooted in a bias toward top-down thinking. If you believe that you must know about (and approve of) the plans other people would make for themselves before you&#8217;re willing to allow everyone to live as they want in a free <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=332\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,29,30],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-freedom","tag-liberty","tag-paternalism","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-5m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}