Funding My work on this article is partially supported by a grant[SSHD 2023-299(D)]from the College of Professional and Continuing Education,an afiliate of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
In this paper,I criticize Joel Feinberg's argument of soft paternalism,which stands against hard paternalism,as being untenable.As assessing one's voluntariness is very difficult and controversial,paternalistic measur...